Early life[edit]Born in Amsterdam,

Early life[edit]Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Corrie ten Boom grew up in the nearby city of Haarlem as the youngest of four children born to Cornelia (died 1921 of a cerebral haemorrhage) and Casper (1859–1944). She had two sisters, Betsie ten Boom (died 1944 in the Ravensbrück concentration camp) and Nollie (died in 1953); her brother, Willem ten Boom, was born in 1887 and died in 1946 of spinal tuberculosis. Corrie's three maternal aunts also lived with her family: Bep died in the early 1920s of tuberculosis; Jans died in the mid-1920s of diabetes; and Anna, who took care of the children after their mother's death, died in the early 1930s.Casper ten Boom worked as a watchmaker, and in 1924 Corrie became the first licensed female watchmaker in the Netherlands. Corrie and Betsie never married, and until their arrest they lived their entire lives in their childhood home in Haarlem. Corrie also ran a church for mentally-disabled people, raised foster children in her home, and was extremely active in other charitable causes.World War II[edit]In May 1940, the Nazis invaded the Netherlands. Among their restrictions was banning a club which Ten Boom had run for young girls.[1][page needed] In May 1942 a well-dressed woman came to the Ten Booms' with a suitcase in hand and told them that she was a Jew, her husband had been arrested several months before, her son had gone into hiding, and Occupation authorities had recently visited her, so she was afraid to go back. She had heard that the Ten Booms had helped their Jewish neighbors, the Weils, and asked if they might help her too. Casper ten Boom readily agreed that she could stay with them. A devoted reader of the Old Testament, he believed that the Jews were the 'chosen people', and he told the woman, "In this household, God's people are always welcome."[2] The family then became very active in the Dutch underground hiding refugees; they provided kosher food for their Jewish-refugee guests and honored the Jewish Sabbath.[3]Thus the Ten Booms began "the hiding place", or "de schuilplaats", as it was known in Dutch (also known as "de Béjé", pronounced in Dutch as 'bayay', an abbreviation of their street address, the Barteljorisstraat). Corrie and Betsie opened their home to refugees — both Jews and others who were members of the resistance movement — being sought by the Gestapo and its Dutch counterpart. They had plenty of room, although wartime shortages meant that food was scarce. Every non-Jewish Dutch person had received a ration card, the requirement for obtaining weekly food coupons. Through her charitable work, Ten Boom knew many people in Haarlem and remembered a couple who had a disabled daughter. The father was a civil servant who by then was in charge of the local ration-card office. She went to his house one evening, and when he asked how many ration cards she needed, "I opened my mouth to say, 'Five,'" Ten Boom wrote in The Hiding Place. "But the number that unexpectedly and astonishingly came out instead was: 'One hundred.'"[4] He gave them to her and she provided cards to every Jew she met.
Secret room[edit]
With so many people using their house, the family built a secret room in case a raid took place. They built it in Corrie ten Boom's bedroom because it was on the house's top floor, hopefully giving people the most time to hide and avoid detection, as searches usually started on the ground/first floor. A member of the Dutch resistance designed the hidden room behind a false wall. Gradually, family and supporters brought building supplies into the house, hiding them in briefcases and rolled-up newspapers. When finished, the secret room was about 30 inches (76 cm) deep, the size of a medium wardrobe. A ventilation system allowed for breathing. To enter the secret room, a person had to open a sliding panel in the plastered brick wall under a bottom bookshelf and crawl in on hands and knees. In addition, the family installed an electric raid-warning buzzer. When the Nazis raided the Ten Boom house in 1944, six people were using the hiding place.
Arrest, detention, and release[edit]
On 28 February 1944, a Dutch informant told the Nazis about the Ten Booms' work; at around 12:30PM the Nazis arrested the entire Ten Boom family. They were sent toScheveningen prison; Nollie and Willem were released immediately along with Corrie's nephew Peter; Casper died 10 days later. Corrie and Betsie were sent from Scheveningen to Herzogenbusch political concentration camp (also known as Kamp Vught), and finally to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, where Betsie died on December 16, 1944. Before she died, she told Corrie, "There is no pit so deep that He [God] is not deeper still."[5]
Corrie ten Boom was released on December 28, 1944. In the movie The Hiding Place, she narrates the section on her release from camp, saying that she later learned that her release had been a clerical error. She said, "God does not have problems — only plans." The Jews whom the Ten Booms had been hiding at the time of their arrests remained undiscovered and all but one, an old woman named Mary, survived.
Life after the war[edit]
After the war, Ten Boom returned to The Netherlands to set up a rehabilitation center. The refuge houses consisted of concentration-camp survivors and sheltered the jobless Dutch who previously collaborated with Germans during the occupation. She returned to Germany in 1946, and traveled the world as a public speaker, appearing in more than 60 countries. She wrote many books during this time.
Ten Boom told the story of her family members and their World War II work in her best-selling book, The Hiding Place (1971), which was made into a World Wide Pictures film in 1975, starring Jeannette Clift as Corrie and Julie Harris as Betsie. In 1977, 85-year-old Corrie moved to Placentia, California. In 1978, she suffered two strokes, the first rendering her unable to speak, and the second resulting in paralysis. She died on her 91st birthday, 15 April 1983, after a third stroke.
Honors[edit]
• Israel honored Ten Boom by naming her Righteous Among the Nations.
• Ten Boom was knighted by the Queen of the Netherlands in recognition of her work during the war.
• The Ten Boom Museum in Haarlem is dedicated to her and her family for their work.
• The King's College in New York City named a new women's house in her honor.
Religious views[edit]
Corrie ten Boom's teaching focused on the Christian Gospel, with emphasis on forgiveness. In her book Tramp for the Lord (1974), she tells the story of an encounter while she was teaching in Germany in 1947. She was approached by a former Ravensbrück camp guard who had been known as one of the cruelest. Reluctant to forgive him, she prayed that she would be able to. She wrote:
For a long moment we grasped each other's hands, the former guard and the former prisoner. I had never known God's love so intensely as I did then.
In the same passage, she wrote that in her post-war experience with other victims of Nazi brutality, those who were able to forgive were best able to rebuild their lives. She appeared on many Christian television programs discussing her ordeal during the Holocaust and the concepts of forgiveness and God's love.
She was known to practice the doctrine of speaking in other tongues.[citation needed] She rejected the doctrine of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture and wrote that it was without Biblical foundation.[citation needed] She believed that such a doctrine left the Christian Church ill-prepared in times of great persecution, such as in China under Mao Zedong. She often quoted a favorite saying of her sister: "There is no pit so deep that He [God] is not deeper still."

Awal kehidupan [sunting]
Lahir di Amsterdam, Belanda, Corrie ten Boom dibesarkan di kota terdekat dari Haarlem sebagai anak bungsu dari empat bersaudara yang lahir Cornelia (meninggal 1921 dari pendarahan otak) dan Casper (1859-1944). Dia memiliki dua saudara perempuan, Betsie ten Boom (meninggal 1944 di kamp konsentrasi Ravensbrück) dan Nollie (meninggal tahun 1953); kakaknya, Willem ten Boom, lahir pada tahun 1887 dan meninggal pada tahun 1946 karena tuberkulosis tulang belakang. Corrie tiga bibi ibu juga tinggal bersama keluarganya: Bep meninggal pada awal 1920-an TB; Jans meninggal di pertengahan tahun 1920-an diabetes; dan Anna, yang merawat anak-anak setelah kematian ibu mereka, meninggal pada awal 1930-an.
Casper ten Boom bekerja sebagai pembuat jam, dan pada tahun 1924 Corrie menjadi yang pertama berlisensi pembuat jam wanita di Belanda. Corrie dan Betsie tidak pernah menikah, dan sampai penangkapan mereka mereka tinggal seluruh hidup mereka di rumah masa kecil mereka di Haarlem. Corrie juga berlari gereja untuk orang-orang cacat mental, mengangkat anak asuh di rumahnya, dan sangat aktif dalam amal lainnya.
Perang Dunia II [sunting]
Pada bulan Mei 1940, Nazi menginvasi Belanda. Di antara pembatasan mereka melarang klub yang Ten Boom telah berjalan selama gadis-gadis muda. [1] [halaman diperlukan] Pada bulan Mei 1942 seorang wanita berpakaian datang ke Ten Boom 'dengan koper di tangan dan mengatakan kepada mereka bahwa ia adalah seorang Yahudi , suaminya telah ditangkap beberapa bulan sebelumnya, anaknya telah bersembunyi, dan otoritas pendudukan baru saja mengunjungi, jadi dia takut untuk kembali. Dia pernah mendengar bahwa Sepuluh booming telah membantu tetangga Yahudi mereka, Weils, dan bertanya apakah mereka bisa membantunya juga. Casper ten Boom langsung setuju bahwa dia bisa tinggal bersama mereka. Seorang pembaca setia dari Perjanjian Lama, ia percaya bahwa orang-orang Yahudi adalah 'orang-orang pilihan', dan dia mengatakan kepada wanita itu, "Dalam rumah tangga ini, umat Allah selalu diterima." [2] Keluarga kemudian menjadi sangat aktif di Belanda pengungsi bersembunyi di bawah tanah; mereka menyediakan makanan halal untuk tamu Yahudi-pengungsi mereka dan menghormati Sabat Yahudi [3].
Dengan demikian Sepuluh booming mulai "tempat persembunyian", atau "de schuilplaats", seperti yang dikenal di Belanda (juga dikenal sebagai "de beje" , diucapkan dalam bahasa Belanda sebagai 'bayay', singkatan dari alamat jalan mereka, Barteljorisstraat). Corrie dan Betsie membuka rumah mereka untuk pengungsi - orang-orang Yahudi dan orang lain yang merupakan anggota gerakan perlawanan - sedang dicari oleh Gestapo dan rekan Belanda tersebut. Mereka memiliki banyak ruang, meskipun kekurangan masa perang berarti bahwa makanan yang langka. Setiap orang Belanda non-Yahudi telah menerima kartu ransum, persyaratan untuk mendapatkan kupon makanan mingguan. Melalui kerja amal nya, Sepuluh Boom tahu banyak orang di Haarlem dan ingat beberapa yang memiliki seorang putri penyandang cacat. Sang ayah adalah seorang PNS yang saat itu bertugas di kantor jatah kartu lokal. Dia pergi ke rumahnya satu malam, dan ketika ia bertanya berapa banyak kartu jatah yang dia butuhkan, "aku membuka mulut untuk mengatakan, 'Five,'" tulis Sepuluh Boom di The Hiding Place. "Namun jumlah yang tiba-tiba dan mengejutkan keluar sebagai gantinya adalah:" Seratus. '"[4] Dia memberi mereka padanya dan dia memberikan kartu kepada setiap orang Yahudi ia bertemu.
Ruangan Rahasia [sunting]
Dengan begitu banyak orang yang menggunakan rumah mereka, keluarga membangun sebuah ruangan rahasia dalam kasus razia berlangsung. Mereka membangunnya di kamar tidur Corrie ten Boom karena itu di lantai atas rumah itu, mudah-mudahan memberikan orang yang paling waktu untuk menyembunyikan dan menghindari deteksi, sebagai pencarian biasanya dimulai di tanah / lantai pertama. Seorang anggota perlawanan Belanda merancang ruang tersembunyi di balik dinding palsu. Secara bertahap, keluarga dan pendukung membawa persediaan bangunan ke dalam rumah, bersembunyi dalam koper dan koran yang digulung. Setelah selesai, ruang rahasia itu sekitar 30 inci (76 cm) dalam, ukuran lemari menengah. Sebuah sistem ventilasi memungkinkan untuk bernafas. Untuk memasuki ruang rahasia, seseorang harus membuka panel geser pada dinding bata diplester di bawah rak buku bawah dan merangkak di atas tangan dan lutut. Selain itu, keluarga diinstal serangan-peringatan bel listrik. . Ketika Nazi menyerbu rumah Sepuluh Boom tahun 1944, enam orang menggunakan tempat persembunyian
Penangkapan, penahanan, dan melepaskan [sunting]
Pada 28 Februari 1944, seorang informan Belanda mengatakan kepada Nazi tentang pekerjaan Sepuluh booming '; sekitar 12:30 Nazi ditangkap seluruh keluarga Sepuluh Boom. Mereka dikirim toScheveningen penjara; Nollie dan Willem dibebaskan segera bersama dengan Corrie keponakan Peter; Casper meninggal 10 hari kemudian. Corrie dan Betsie dikirim dari Scheveningen ke Herzogenbusch kamp konsentrasi politik (juga dikenal sebagai Kamp Vught), dan akhirnya ke kamp konsentrasi Ravensbrück di Jerman, di mana Betsie meninggal pada tanggal 16 Desember 1944. Sebelum dia meninggal, dia mengatakan kepada Corrie, "Ada ada lubang begitu dalam bahwa Dia [Tuhan] tidak lebih diam. "[5]
Corrie ten Boom dirilis pada tanggal 28 Desember 1944. Dalam film The Hiding Place, dia menceritakan bagian tentang pembebasannya dari kamp, ​​mengatakan bahwa ia kemudian mengetahui bahwa pembebasannya telah menjadi kesalahan administrasi. Dia mengatakan, "Allah tidak memiliki masalah -. Hanya rencana" Orang-orang Yahudi yang Sepuluh booming telah bersembunyi pada saat penangkapan mereka tetap belum ditemukan dan semua kecuali satu, seorang wanita tua bernama Maria, selamat.
Kehidupan setelah perang [sunting]
Setelah perang, Ten Boom kembali ke Belanda untuk mendirikan pusat rehabilitasi. Rumah-rumah perlindungan terdiri dari korban kamp konsentrasi dan terlindung Belanda pengangguran yang sebelumnya bekerja sama dengan Jerman selama pendudukan. Dia kembali ke Jerman pada tahun 1946, dan berkeliling dunia sebagai pembicara publik, muncul di lebih dari 60 negara. Dia menulis banyak buku selama ini.
Sepuluh Boom menceritakan kisah anggota keluarganya dan mereka bekerja Perang Dunia II di buku laris, The Hiding Place (1971), yang dibuat menjadi Wide Pictures Film Dunia pada tahun 1975, dibintangi Jeannette Clift sebagai Corrie dan Julie Harris sebagai Betsie. Pada tahun 1977, Corrie 85 tahun pindah ke Placentia, California. Pada tahun 1978, ia menderita stroke dua, yang pertama rendering nya tidak mampu berbicara, dan yang kedua mengakibatkan kelumpuhan. Dia meninggal pada hari ulang ke-91 nya, 15 April 1983, setelah stroke ketiga.
Honors [sunting]
• Israel dihormati Sepuluh Boom dengan menamai dirinya Righteous antara Bangsa.
• Sepuluh Boom gelar kebangsawanan oleh Ratu Belanda sebagai pengakuan atas karyanya selama perang.
• Sepuluh Boom Museum di Haarlem didedikasikan untuk dirinya dan keluarganya untuk pekerjaan mereka.
• The King College di New York City bernama rumah wanita baru untuk menghormatinya.
Agama dilihat [sunting]
Corrie ten mengajar Boom terfokus pada Injil Kristen, dengan penekanan pada pengampunan. Dalam bukunya Tramp untuk Tuhan (1974), dia bercerita tentang sebuah pertemuan ketika ia mengajar di Jerman pada tahun 1947. Dia didekati oleh seorang mantan penjaga kamp Ravensbrück yang telah dikenal sebagai salah satu yang paling kejam tersebut. Enggan untuk memaafkannya, dia berdoa bahwa dia akan mampu. Dia menulis:
Selama beberapa saat kami menangkap tangan satu sama lain, mantan penjaga dan mantan tahanan. Aku tidak pernah tahu kasih Allah begitu intens seperti yang saya lakukan kemudian.
Dalam bagian yang sama, ia menulis bahwa dalam pengalaman pasca-perang nya dengan korban lainnya kebrutalan Nazi, orang-orang yang mampu memaafkan yang paling mampu untuk membangun kembali kehidupan mereka. Dia muncul di banyak program televisi Kristen membahas penderitaannya selama Holocaust dan konsep pengampunan dan kasih Allah.
Dia dikenal untuk berlatih doktrin berbicara dalam bahasa lain. [rujukan?] Dia menolak doktrin Pra-Tribulation Pengangkatan dan menulis bahwa itu tanpa dasar Alkitab. [rujukan?] Dia percaya bahwa doktrin tersebut meninggalkan Gereja Kristen tidak siap pada saat penganiayaan besar, seperti di Cina di bawah Mao Zedong. Dia sering mengutip pepatah favorit adiknya: "Tidak ada lubang begitu dalam bahwa Dia [Tuhan] tidak lebih tenang."