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1 posted on 11/09/2011 8:34:47 AM PST by restornu
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Corrie Ten Boom History
http://www.corrietenboom.com/history.htm

Museum
http://tenboom.com/en/


2 posted on 11/09/2011 8:43:10 AM PST by restornu (Love One Another)
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To: restornu

One of my heroes!!


3 posted on 11/09/2011 8:47:53 AM PST by luckystarmom
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Another woman deserving of high praise.
Should be revered as a “Hero” instead of the miserable celebrities that our youth want to emulate.


4 posted on 11/09/2011 8:48:09 AM PST by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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The Ten Boom family were devoted Christians who dedicated their lives in service to their fellow man. Their home was always an "open house" for anyone in need. Through the decades the Ten Booms were very active in social work in Haarlem, and their faith inspired them to serve the religious community and society at large.

During the Second World War, the Ten Boom home became a refuge, a hiding place, for fugitives and those hunted by the Nazis. By protecting these people, Casper and his daughters, Corrie and Betsie, risked their lives. This non-violent resistance against the Nazi-oppressors was the Ten Booms' way of living out their Christian faith. This faith led them to hide Jews, students who refused to cooperate with the Nazis, and members of the Dutch underground resistance movement.

During 1943 and into 1944, there were usually 6-7 people illegally living in this home: 4 Jews and 2 or 3 members of the Dutch underground. Additional refugees would stay with the Ten Booms for a few hours or a few days until another "safe house" could be located for them. Corrie became a ringleader within the network of the Haarlem underground. Corrie and "the Beje group" would search for courageous Dutch families who would take in refugees, and much of Corrie's time was spent caring for these people once they were in hiding. Through these activities, the Ten Boom family and their many friends saved the lives of an estimated 800 Jews, and protected many Dutch underground workers.

-- Excerpts from The Corrie Ten Boom Museum's website

FWIW, Corrie Ten Boom and her family were members of the Dutch Reformed Church. Father Ten Boom's determination to wear the Star of David (identifying himself as a Jew, even though he wasn't one) was a symbolic, inspiring, and sobering testimonial to his faith and solidarity with the Jews in the face of the Nazi occupation of Holland. The Ten Boom household was betrayed, and sent to the Nazi concentration camps for their actions. Corrie's father and sister died in those camps. Corrie Ten Boom was awarded the honorific "Righteous Among the Nations", by the State of Israel, for her actions on behalf of the Jews during WWII.

The Dutch Reformed Church is one of several "Reformed" denominations, all Calvinist in doctrine, that trace themselves back to congregations holding to the Belgic, Heidelberg, and Dort confessions in the Netherlands. Their roots also extend to German, Hungarian, and French believers, but culturally they are mostly Netherlanders by heritage.

Joseph Smith claimed that God told him that these churches, including the Ten Boom's, "were all wrong....all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.”"

6 posted on 11/09/2011 9:12:44 AM PST by Alex Murphy (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2703506/posts?page=518#518)
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