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    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

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    of reading the Bible and praying in faith. A woman sitting just a few feet away began to challenge the Ten Boom sisters who were seemingly leading this nightly tradition. The agitated woman yelled, and complained about their bleak situation. She challenged God and asked several questions along the lines of “if your God is so loving, then why did he let you come here. Corrie and Betsie Ten Boom both speak out in faith during this scene. They inform this woman about how God has been faithful to them

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    The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom started with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the ten Boom Watch shop in Haarlem, Holland. Highly respected for their deep religious faith, the ten Boom family gave help to anyone who might need it. The celebration took place in 1937, under the shadow of World War II as well as the rise of Nazism. The Dutch people, believing that their neutrality would be honored as it had in World War 1, could not have imagined the horrors that would soon befall them.

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    “It is not my ability, but my response 1to God’s ability that counts.” Corrie ten Boom helped Jews escape the Holocaust during World War Two. Her family was devoted to serving God and standing for what’s right no matter the cost. They saved about 800 lives, but it wasn’t easy. Her entire family was imprisoned! Through the good and the bad times Corrie looked to God for guidance, and He always provided for her. Cornelia, also known as Corrie, was born on April 15th 1892, and is most famous for hiding

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    The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom According to Corrie & Betsie Ten Boom, life was a faith-building experience. Those two women were faced with one of the toughest experiences of their lives. Each day, Corrie and Betsie had to persuade each other that everything was going to be okay, once they were free from the “hell”, or the concentration camp they were placed in. And, yet, Corrie and Betsie somehow managed to keep in mind that God was with them. Corrie Ten Boom’s astonishing

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    The book Corrie Ten Boom was an excellent book. The story was timed well and shortened from the original biography of Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place. This story is mostly about how a Christian with so much faith can change the world. In the book many times Corrie shows compassion and forgiveness. This book takes place in the Netherlands. I like history and this was a great story given during WWII, during the Nazi reign. The story starts off slow not much going on, except Corrie is sick. Her parents

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    four very harsh concentration camps, and finally getting out just to find out that most of your family died from the camps - how would you deal with it? Corrie Ten Boom should be considered a hero to all because she exhibited love, kindness, determination, strength and is not only a hero to the jews but a savior to all. Corrie Ten Boom inspires everyone around the world because anyone can connect to her in some type of way. "Corrie was the first female to become a licensed watchmaker" according

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    a. Corrie ten Boom- Corrie ten Boom was a faithful Christian who sacrificed everything to help hide Jews in occupied Holland during World War II. Her courage and faith helped her to survive a German concentration camp and live on to spread God’s word. In the story, Corrie played a protagonist who also acted as a first person point of view narrator. Corrie’s role in the story was to tell her life story of the presence of God throughout her survival of the terrors of occupation.

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    Everlasting Arms By Megan Corrie ten Boom was advantageous, incredible, and noble. Through out her life she helped kids and adults grow in there spiritral faith through her amazing storyes. The defination of faithfull is- loyal, constant and steadfast. Corie continued to be extremely steadfast in her faith and she was alwayes a swrve nt of the Lord. The storyies of the courageous Corrie are very heart building. She alwayed called on the Lord in any heard moment in her life. Corrie is a very loving

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    “Corrie ten Boom: The Woman Who Forgave” Before May of 1940, Cornelia Arnolda Johanna ten Boom would have said her life was uneventful. But then everything changed. World War II started around September of 1939. The ten Boom family was not Jewish, but they had a strong moral and could not stand the ways the Jews were treated. The German Blitzkrieg ran through the Netherlands in May 1940 and mistreatment of Jews started in the ten Boom’s town a couple months later (ten Boom, Sherrill, and Sherrill

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