Corrie Ten Boom Of The Second Great War

While reading The Hiding Place, I was frequently inspired by the power and insight behind Corrie ten Boom’s words. However, two of her statements particularly stood out to me. The first was when she had said “Some knowledge is too heavy... you cannot bear it...your father will carry it until you are able.” (ten Boom 175) This phrase is so meaningful because it was a lesson she had learned from her own father when she was young, but now she uses it in her own teaching and relates it to her heavenly father as well. The second quote that stood out to me was when she had said “His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will.” (ten Boom 234) This statement refers to Corrie’s realization of how everything had happened for a reason. This was her protection or “hiding place” through the horrors of the concentration camp and her personal losses. I found these two quotes to be the most perceptive phrases of Corrie’s that spoke to me the most.

Corrie once said,“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God,” (Boom 3). She did exactly that when took on the challenge of hiding Jews in her own house. The consequence of doing so was going to prison and possibly concentration camp. Even though she did get caught and go to both concentration camp and jail, she never backed down and always found renewed strength and comfort in the Bible. Corrie also felt a calling to minister to others while in Ravensbruck. She and her sister Betsie would hold prayer circles, even there would be serious punishment if they were

Reluctantly but bravely, Corrie told a lie when asked whether or not they had more than one radio. She answered with “No,” when in fact another was hidden in their home. The ten Booms learned to trust in God when faced with fear, and He helped them to be brave during the underground period.

Corrie Ten Boom’s astonishing novel, “The Hiding Place”, is an extraordinary adventure of one courageous Christian woman who had been sent to a concentration camp, along with her sister, for helping the Jews. Both the girls depended heavily on Christ’s power and words to guide

Last but not least the third reason Corrie should have hidden the helpless, desperate, and terrified Jews was because if the Nazi found them and sent them off to a concentration camp the ten Booms could bring hope to other prisoners. Because the ten Booms loved God they could bring the gospel to doubting prisoners. Corrie could deliver the much needed love into the concentration camps. The ten Boom could bring the comfort of a loving and caring God to the prisoners.

Describe: Liesel and her best friend, Rudy Steiner, has been walking through town when a woman in a window above them looks to the streets and announces, “Die Juden;” The Jews. This is when a vast amount of Jewish prisoners begins to march their way down Munich Street while Nazi soldiers barked orders at them. To everyone, especially Liesel (who had a Jewish person living in her basement), this was the furthest thing from a pleasant sight. And apparently, Hans Hubermann had enough of this, as if being controlled by God himself, Hans walked over and offered a particularly weak Jew a piece of bread out of pure sympathy, only to be beaten by overlooking Nazis.

The two siblings were standing outside of Kinderheim L410, an old prison, with hundreds of other Jewish children (Levine 64). They would stay here with little food, space, and knowledge of what was in their years to come. One day, Hana and her brother received a letter stating he was being deported to a labor camp. She was headed to Auschwitz.

After a year without having the light of day reach their dimmed souls, the sounds of guns rang throughout the woods signaling the liberty of the clandestine Jews. The surviving Jews emerged from the safe haven finally feeling the reality of safety.

Born in Poland, Henia Weit was the youngest of nine children in her family. She lived in a town by the name of Sambor. Unfortunately, the town was bombarded by German soldiers shortly after Hitler started his reign of terror on the Jews. Henia’s family was forced to do laborious work in a ghetto until they were all deported to a concentration camp. Fortunately for Henia, she was able to escape and never went to the concentration camp herself. Instead, she had to survive for several years alone, with only her sister to turn to.

Corrie Ten Boom is the daughter of a popular watchmaker and christian living in Holland during the beginning of Hitler, the Nazis, and hatred against Jews. The Ten Boom’s, however, always do the right thing and help anyone in need. Before their mother died, their household was always full of poor neighbors needing food or tea or anything else they could provide. This kindness continues into the beginning of the Holocaust. Corrie begins to join an underground system, involved with helping and sheltering Jews. At first, she was just trying to get some to different places where they would be safe, however. Corrie got so involved that the watch shop, called the Beje. became the center. She had monthly deliveries of food ration card, new Jews would show up to her door almost weekly, and the rest of the people involved in the underground had a secret code or phone calls, revolving around watch-talk. Eventually, Corrie could not find a place or a man, so he ended up living with the Ten Booms. They ended building a secret room with an elaborate warning system installed. They had many Jews living in that room, but little did she know that the entire town knew of her work in the underground and o the Jews in her house. Corrie ended up being caught and taken to prison, along with her father and sister. Corrie kept her with all this time, which helped her make it through. Eventually, after finding out that her father has died in prison, Corrie and her sister get to see the rest of

This is a clear example of the growing pacifism of those who were not Jewish and how they chose to react, or not, to such acts. While it may come off as a cold shoulder, the important realization of this situation was fear. Those on the third floor, as many others did, pretended that nothing was awry during the ransacking of their Jewish neighbor’s apartments and homes. Propaganda, up to this

The Birkes’ personal history was less well-known: proprietors Nathan and Sally Birke were Jewish Holocaust survivors. At a time when rhetoric about immigrants and refugees makes daily news, the film shows that whatever compels people to flee their homeland can have powerful and long-lasting effects, but human resilience is equally or more powerful.

These were the people that we persecuted for what they believed in and I found it extremely moving that they still had a smile on their faces and that they were educating their children about this issue. At one point on the second floor, I found myself looking upon the remains of a burned book from the holocaust that was taken from a synagogue, but it was written in Hebrew and I could not make sense of it. Next to me was a Jewish man who leaned over to me and pointed at each page, telling me what they were. There was the Creation Story, the Ten Commandments, and so on; he even went to the extent of reading some of it to me. This struck me because here was this man, who did not even know me, and yet he was educating me on his religion and persecution. It was instances such as this one that made me realize that these people find this very important and delicate, yet they do not shy away from educating others about this plight. After going through all of the floors and taking in as much as I could, I learned a very important thing about the holocaust; no matter how devastating

Sitting here alone at breakfast wondering where my sister could’ve gone, “I don’t know where my sister is, my friend is gone, I’ve only got myself,” this was the first thing that came to my mind while I was sitting in the back of the cafeteria,while I prayed. I pray that my sister is doing well, I pray that each child at this camp will soon see their family once more and I pray that one day each Jew will finally be free. Ring! Ring! Ring! Those were the bells that rang when we had to get to work. As I was digging the same smell from the fire returned, it was difficult to breath when the fog was coming my way and at that moment I knew that in the fire was the smell of burning children, my heart began to beat fast, I started to sweat and

Corrie Ten Boom exemplified the characteristics of a visionary leader through her inspirational motivation in the Dutch underground resistance against Nazi Germany. Corrie witnessed the Jewish oppression at the hands of the Nazis and rejected it (Straub, 1992). One night, a Jewish woman went to Corrie and asked for help and Corrie agreed. Soon, Corrie became an active part of the Dutch underground resistance and worked to save the Jews (Ten Boom, 2006). Here, Corrie used her gift of inspirational motivation to inspire and motivate others to join the resistance or support the effort by providing food ration cards, supplies, or safe passage for the Jews and resistance workers. She even had a hidden room built in her house to hide the Jews residing there (Straub, 1992; Ten Boom, 2006).