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Don't know an exact date. The book The Hidiing Place, she wrote shows she was raised a Christian. Her life has been an inspiration to me and good examples for lessons when I teach aslo. She accepted the Lord and became a Christian at five years old. In her late teens she rededicated her life to the Lord.

That may be impossible to determine with any certainty. Prisoners in the concentration camps died of many causes related to their mistreatment: malnutrition, tuberculosis, septic infections, pneumonia, dysentery, parasites, and numerous infectious diseases.

nazi raided herouse and found the secret room with the Jews in

Corrie ten Boom is well known for surviving the notorious Ravensbruck Concentration Camp, while her sister, Betsie, who was with her in the Camp did not. The family's old watch shop had a secret room. The ten Booms were betrayed and thrown into the brutality of the concentration camps. It was in the watch shop that Corrie helped her father as a hobbie.

Corrie ten Boom live on Barteljorisstraat 19. It is in the center of Haarlem, Holland, now the Neatherlands. It is now a museum with guided tours of the old Beje with many interesting facts about Corrie and her family and life.

Corrie ten Boom's parents were Casper and Cornelia "Cor" Johanna Arnolda (Luitingh) ten Boom.

on October 22, 1953. Cause of death is unknown.

As described in Corrie ten Boom's autobiography "The Hiding Place", Betsie was very serious about her faith and she loved Jesus. She had a heart for not only the Jewish people who perished, but also for the guards/Nazis for being misled.

Corrie Ten Boom went to college for a two year apprenticeship for watch and clockmaking, her father and grandfather owned a shop in this trade also.

Cornelia Arnolda Johanna ten Boom

She hides the Jews, and was slapped by the Gestapo, because they want to know whey the Jews is, but Corrie revealed nothing.

Corrie ten Boom had two sisters, Betsie ten Boom (never married) and Nollie van Woerden (married Flip van Woerden with six children). She also had a brother, Willem ten Boom. He married Tine van Veen, the younger sister of their family doctor. They had 4 children.

Yes, she always lived with her sister Betsie and her father Casper. Nollie, Corrie's sister, and Willem, Corrie's brother, moved out. Corrie's mother had a stroke and died just before the Germans attacked Haarlem.

Corrie ten Boom's family was imprisoned for most of 1944.

They were arrested by the Nazis on February 28, 1944, and Corrie and her sister Betsie ended up in the Ravensbruck concentration camp where Betsie died on December 16, 1944 (age 59). Corrie was released on or about December 30.

She was sick with her sister, Bestie who both died of strokes.

she died on her 91st birthday.

Tremendous grief. I had the blessing of meeting her when I was a teenager. She was a very special woman.

one of her friends in the underground

"The Hiding Place" is the famous autobiography of Corrie Ten Boom who lived through the Nazi occupation of Holland in WWII.

Corrie was part of the Dutch resistance in Haarlem. It tells how the Ten Booms smuggled Jews out into the countryside and abroad. Eventually Corrie and her sister Betsie were caught and sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp. The sisters became separated but held within the same camp. Betsie could not find herself hating the Germans. Corrie lived with hate and resentment until she learned from Betsie how to place her trust in God's will.

Corrie miraculously survived to tell the tale and help in the post-war reconstruction of Holland and work tirelessly for reconciliation in Europe.

While she had a series of strokes in 1978, which made her an invalid, her death was an otherwise normal event at 91 in 1983, dying on her birthday, April 15th. She had been knighted by the Queen of the Netherlands for her work in hiding Jews and others from the Nazi Death Camp squads, during WW2.

While she was born in Amserdam, Holland, she grew up in Haarlem.

Elisabeth (Betsie) and Nollie were her sisters, and a brother, Willem. Also, Corrie had a brother named Hendrik Jan who died in infancy and is not mentioned in The Hiding Place.

it was nearly two years on February 28, 1944 her and her family ( Bestie and her father) were arrested for foiling with the Germans.