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Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom (15 April 1892 [1] – 15 April 1983) was a Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family members to help many Jewish people escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II by hiding them in her home.
On screen, George (billed as Jeannette Clift) [6] was best known for her role as Corrie ten Boom in the 1975 film, The Hiding Place. The film recounted the real-life story of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch Christian woman who hid and rescued Jews from the Nazis during the German occupation of the Netherlands.
Boom, Cornelia "Corrie" ten: F April 15, 1892 April 15, 1983 (aged 91) Netherlands Borowski, Tadeusz: M November 12, 1922 July 1, 1951 (aged 28) Ukraine/USSR Brady, George: M February 9, 1928 January 11, 2019 (aged 90) Czechoslovakia Bretholz, Leo [3] M March 6, 1921
The Hiding Place (1975) – historical biographical drama film recounting Corrie ten Boom's and her family's experiences before and during their imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust during World War II [221] The Hindenburg (1975) – historical adventure disaster film based on the 1937 Hindenburg disaster [222]
Ten Boom Museum on the Barteljorisstraat in Haarlem. It is a 17th-century house with a neck gable facade. The Ten Boom Museum is a museum in Haarlem, the Netherlands, dedicated to The Hiding Place, the subject of a book by Corrie ten Boom. The house where the museum is located was purchased and restored in 1983 by the Corrie ten Boom Fellowship ...
He currently still lives in Haarlem. Corrie ten Boom, born in Amsterdam, lived in Haarlem for a long time. She, along with her family, was responsible for shelter many Jewish people in their house during World War II. Her history is featured in the book The Hiding Place. In 1967 Corrie was honored as Righteous Among The Nations.
Corrie’s parents and other activists quickly blamed the IDF. But Israel rejected those claims of responsibility, saying what had happened was an accident and even questioning the accounts of the ...
Corrie ten Boom, John and Elizabeth Sherrill (1971). The Hiding Place. Guideposts Associates. Demos Shakarian, John and Elizabeth Sherrill (1975). The Happiest People on Earth. Steward Press. Brother Andrew; Sherrill, John & Sherrill, Elizabeth (2001). God's Smuggler. Chosen Books. ISBN 0-8007-9301-3.