The ten Boom family members were separated and transferred to concentration camps. The four Jews and two underground workers in the house at the time of the arrest were not located by the Nazis and were extricated by the underground 47 hours after they fled to the tiny hiding place (located in Corrie's room).
28, 1944, they were betrayed and Corrie and several relatives were arrested. It is estimated they were able to save the lives of 800 Jews, in addition to protecting underground workers. They were hiding, feeding and transporting Jews and underground members hunted by the Gestapo out of the country. During the Nazi occupation, they chose to act out their faith through peaceful resistance to the Nazis by active participation in the Dutch underground. Her extensive traveling to share Christ and counsel the hurting made her a worldwide witness, or, as she put it, a “tramp for the Lord.” Corrie died in 1983, on her 91st birthday.Corrie ten Boom and her family were Christians who were active in social work in their home town of Haarlem, the Netherlands. After being miraculously released, Corrie began an international ministry of writing and speaking. Arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Ravensbruck, the notorious Nazi concentration camp, she found for herself the victory that overcomes the world.
She and her family risked their lives by hiding Jews in occupied Holland during World War II. It is hard to overestimate the impact of the life of Corrie ten Boom. Released after ten months, she tramped the world with a burning desire to tell others that Jesus is a reality, that He lives, that He is victor. Hiding Jewish refugees led to the family’s arrest and Corrie was imprisoned in a German concentration camp. ‘Fraulein, will you forgive me?’ Corrie ten Boom lived with her family in Holland for fifty years before the outbreak of World War II. I was face to face with one of my captors and my blood seemed to freeze. Now he was in front of me, hand thrust out. It came back with a rush: The place was Ravensbruck and the man who was making his way forward had been a guard-one of the most cruel guards.
It was in a church in Munich that I saw him… One moment I saw the overcoat and the brown hat the next, a blue uniform and a visored cap with its skull and crossbones. The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends Join Corrie on a worldwide trip that could only have been planned by God.
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