Mara Davis Ms. Bauer English Language Arts Period 3 15 March 2023 Corrie Ten Boom: WWII Hero Without Corrie ten Boom's efforts, hundreds of Jews would have died in ghettos and concentration camps. When the Nazis invaded Holland in 1940 many people would not stand for the cruel and racist ways of the Nazi party. Among these people were the Ten Boom family. Corrie Ten Boom was a WWII hero who helped save hundreds of Jews by hiding them in her house and leading a network of safe houses in Holland. There are many reasons Corrie Ten Boom wanted to help Jews escape from Nazi Germany. To begin, Corrie was born on April 15, 1892 in Haarlem, Netherlands. Corrie and her family were very religious people. Their Christian faith inspired them to help Jewish …show more content…
The Ten Boom house in Haarlem, called the Beje house, became a refuge for Jews. Escaping Jews were hidden behind a false wall in Corries room. The area could only hold 6 cramped people. Some of them would only stay days, but some would have to stay for weeks before it was a safe time to transport them to a new safe house. Soon Corrie was a leader of the beje movement, where she would lead Jews in hiding through a series of safe houses across the country. Through her efforts she is thought to have saved nearly 800 Jews. Disappointingly, after the betrayal of a fellow Dutch citizen, the whole Ten Boom family was arrested from their house on February 28, 1944. Corrie and her sister Betsie were sent to Ravensbruck prison. Where they taught the word of the lord to prisoners even in captivity. Corrie once mentioned that 700 prisoners had to stay in a room built for 200. In an interview with Pat Robertson Corrie states, “One of the most terrible things I have experienced in the concentration camp was that they stripped us of all our clothing, we had to stand naked.” (“Uncovering the Inspiring Story of Corrie ten Boom's 1974 Journey!”). Corrie later related this experience to Jesus dying naked on the cross, stating that it helped her to better understand his suffering. Although she experienced some awful circumstances within the camp, it became worse when her sister died in December of 1944. No one knows why, but …show more content…
After being released from Ravensbruck, Corrie traveled for 33 years, speaking in 64 countries. A website states, “ In 1946, she began a worldwide ministry that took her to more than 60 countries. She received many tributes, including being knighted by the queen of the Netherlands.” (Biography.com Editors). Corrie preached her story and taught about how her faith in God stayed strong throughout her experiences. She taught the world that even though Nazis caused pain and suffering to her family, her love for God has allowed her to forgive those who caused the deaths of her father, sister, brother, and nephew. Corrie states, "When Jesus Christ tells us to forgive our enemies, He gives us the power He demands of us."(“Her Story | Corrie ten Boom Online Archive”). Corrie also wrote an autobiography called, “The Hiding Place”, where she writes about her family enduring the hardships sent their way. When her book was adapted into a movie, it was set in a recreation of Ravensbruck prison. In the last days of shooting “The Hiding Place”, Corrie went to visit the set. But entering the camp was very hard for her. A website states, “It was difficult for me," she said. "The moment I entered the camp I felt it was all real again, maybe too real. It became too much for me. I couldn't hold my tears any longer, and maybe it was good that I cried.” (“Her Story | Corrie ten Boom Online Archive”). Furthermore, In 1978 Corrie suffered a series of
In the documentary, One Survivor Remembers, Gerda Weissmann recalls her miraculous survival of the Nazi concentration camps. Throughout her survival, Gerda Weissman shows personality traits of courage, perseverance, and compassion. When Gerda Weissmann was fifteen years old Germany seized control over Poland and all Jewish Poles were confined to small living quarters of their houses. Gerda Weissmann’s ability to keep calm and go on living in that situation showed true bravery because a girl her age would surely panic and develop a negative personality. Gerda Weissmann is possibly most courageous when she separated from her family and has to go to Dulag transit camp, while the rest of her family is sent to Auschwitz.
Annotated Bibliography for Holocaust Survivors "Dora Apsan Sorell." Telling Stories. 2007. Accessed November 16, 2015. http://www.tellingstories.org/holocaust/dsorell/index.html
World War II was a traumatic event in the world and it affected so many people, mostly Jews. Even though that was happening Irena Sendler was there helping and saving children and putting herself at risk. Irena Sendler was forgotten for 60 years. That was until people found out about her and once again revealed her to the world telling her story.
World War II was a tragic event that affected many people, and countries. Many people that were Jewish were tortured and broken down in horrible ways during this time. WWII consisted of Adolf Hitler gaining power, and taking jews away from their families and taken to death camps. Eva is a holocaust survivor that has told her story about her and her twin sister. Eva describes her experience as “Hell on Earth.”
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One of the best known teenager to come to Westerbork was Anne Frank and her family. Westerbork was known for transporting Jews, Slavs, Homosexuals, Jehovah 's Witness, and so on to concentration camps or death camps. On July 14, 1942 the SS ordered that all Jews had to be examined and checked if they were eligible to work in concentration camps. On July 15, 1942 about 1,135 Jews were selected to work. German police, assisted by an SS company, and police, military from the Dutch took over Westerbork.
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Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch Christian woman born on April 15, 1892, in Haarlem, Netherlands. She is known as the face of the Resistance for surviving Nazi concentration camps and holding a steadfast faith in God throughout her journey. She was an unforgettable evangelist throughout World War II because of her and her family’s desire to serve people from all walks of life, including Jews who were being persecuted during the war. Although she was in immense torment in the camps, she remained joyful and reminded other prisoners alongside her that God is always with them. After the war, Corrie dedicated her life to spreading a message of joy and endurance through tribulations, and in doing so, she helped millions of people, even today.
for plagiarism. The book The Hiding Place, Written by Corrie Ten Bloom is a book about WWII. It was written to show what happened while the nazis were in power, and what went on inside the camps that people were placed into. Corrie and her family hid Jewish people inside their house during the war and that is also a main part of the book.
Slowly the German took over, controlling many aspects of the Dutch people’s lives; lives that had once been peaceful. Ration cards were given, curfews were set, and Jews were being banned from many aspects of society. The Germans wanted to annihilate the Jews! The ten Boom family was ready to help the Jews in any way they could.
Today I will talk about one other Leader named Chiune Sugihara who was a Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews escape Lithuania, about 6,000 Jews to be exact. These three people and many more saved more than tens of thousands of Jews during World War 2 and it is time they be remembered. First I will be talking about Corrie ten Boom. She and her family started helping Jews from the very beginning starting with sending them to
Freddie Oversteegen and her sister Killed many Nazis during World War ll and saved many Jews because they killed the Nazis. Freddie Oversteegen was only 14 when she joined the Dutch resistance. One of the quotes from the Survivors Scholastic News Article is, “Most of their family had been killed by the Nazis at the concentration camp called Auschwitz. More than 1 million people died there. Most of them were Jewish.”
The hiding places in many people's houses played a huge role during the Holocaust in saving many of the Jew’s lives. The main purpose was to hide Jews so they couldn't get caught. Other people constructed them for ration cards and other valuables that Germans wanted. Many Jews in these hiding places were spared because of the great architecture of the people that constructed them.
(Masterplots 1-2) After her actions she was arrested, and wrote a book which she is famous for titled “the hiding place” Her older brother Caspar ten Boom a devoted reader of the Old Testament said Jews were the “chosen people” and also said “in the house of god people are always welcome.” (Masterplots 1-2) The Ten Booms began "the hiding place", or "de schuilplaats", as it was known in Dutch. 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.
She was born February 15, 1910, in Otwock, Poland. Her parents were members of the Polish Socialist Party ( Biography.com) . Later on her in her childhood father died of Typhus when she was just a child. Just a few years before the Holocaust she got married to her first husband named Mieczyslaw Sendler and later divorced ( Biography.com). When Hitler got chancellor he wanted the Jews to die because he thought they were the cause of them losing the first World War.