Betsie ten Boom

The Hiding Place – Betsie Ten Boom A Dutch woman, well-known as Betsie Ten Boom the daughter of a watchmaker, who is frail because anime and persecution but enjoys making every place she goes more homely and warm, has the faith, the serenity, and the complete conviction that the Lord is always there in every circumstance. This faith takes Betsie and her sister through the hardships they endure in the prisons and concentration camps where they are incarcerated. While her sister tends to pray for their

on WWII, and the Ten Boom family. Corrie Ten Boom is one of the family members. Her family and her, helped many people in WWII, and risked their lives to save other people. They helped other people because the Nazis were looking for them. The Family were Christians, and would help anyone no mater what. Early Life Corrie Ten Boom was born on April 15, 1892, in Haarlem, Netherlands. In her family, Corrie was the youngest child. She had one brother, Willem, and two sisters, Betsie and Nollie. Her father

only Jews, but also the lives of citizens in other countries. Between Night by Elie Wiesel and The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom, comradeship, faith, strength, and people of visions are crucial to the survival of principle characters. Ironically, in both stories there is a foreseen future, that both seemed to be ignored. Before the Great War begins affecting the Wiesel’s and ten Boom’s lives, both families experience a premonition of a dark future ahead of them. Ironically, neither family chooses

times Corrie hears Betsie speak of how sorry she felt for the German soldiers and how she wishes she could help them see the err of their ways. Betsie’s compassion towards her captors, assaulters, and enemies profoundly illustrates her love for the human race and the desire she has that all know Christ. While in the Vught concentration camp, Betsie states, “Corrie, if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love! We must find a way, no matter how long it takes…”. Betsie sees the potential

The book, The Hiding Place, is a biography on Corrie Ten Boom and her family’s struggles during the Holocaust. The book takes place before World War I through World War II. Corrie and her family lived in the Netherlands in the time of the Holocaust where they owned a build and repair shop for watches. She had two sisters named Betsie and Nollie, and one brother named Willem. Her father did most of the work with the watch shop, and her mother died when she was a little girl. In 1940 when the Nazis

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

Corrie ten Boom grew up in a strong, Christian home. Religion played a huge role in her life. Her family was always assisting anyone who needed help. Whether it was taking in foster kids, giving money to those who needed it or offering food and shelter to Jews during World War II, her family was always offering to help people in need. The ten Boom family took in over eight hundred Jews, attempting to save them from the Gestapo. The ten Boom’s were very brave and stood up for what they believed in

It is January 1937, in Haarlem, Holland, Corrie Ten Boom wakes up very excited hoping that it was not foggy outside, but hoping that it would be sunny and have bright weather outside.Corrie was also excited because it was the centennial of the watch shop that her family runs. Throughout the day the shop was being filled with flowers and customers. Corrie speaks about her life as a six year old in 1898 starting school. Corrie was living with her older sister Bestie. Bestie has talked to Corrie about

The Face on the Milk Carton, Caroline B. Cooney is a book full of suspense, fiction, mystery, and some young adult fiction. The publisher of the book was “Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers” and was published in 1990 with 184 pages. No one ever paid attention to the missing children on their milk cartons, till Janie Johnson chugged her milk and saw a face awfully recognizable. She was baffled on who it was. So she decided to look into that child a little more to find out what happened

There are times, in the face of evil, when it is appropriate to break God’s laws. In the hiding place Corrie is faced with the option of lying to protect the innocent two times and chooses to lie even though it is breaking God’s law, and in Joshua 2 Rehab lied to protect Joshua and Caleb. I believe that in these situations it was okay to break God’s law. In the hiding place Corrie Tenboom and her family were arrested for suspected underground activity, and Corrie lies about having Jews in her house