Corrie ten Boom: Courageous Love in World War Two

Corrie ten Boom once said, "Love is larger than the walls which shut it in." She took this statement to heart, showing love to everyone. Corrie ten Boom was a courageous Christian Dutch woman who hid Jews in her house during World War Two. She was caught and put in a few different concentration camps. Corrie did make it out alive and went on to preach the Christian message to many people. Corrie ten Boom deserves a biography because she was to risk everything in order to help those that were in need. Corrie ten Boom lived in a small “Beje” above her family’s watch shop with her father and sister Betsie when World War Two started. Two years after the fall of Holland, Corrie, at the age of 50, started to get involved in the underground. Her
Some became a “permanent” edition to the household; but others were just passing through, on their way to other safe houses. There were different things that people who worked with the underground were willing to take on, but the ten Boom family were willing to take in those who had no chance of finding a home elsewhere: “Mary Itallie, at seventy-six the oldest of our guests, was also the one who posed the greatest problem. The moment Mary stepped through our door I heard the asthmatic wheezing which had made other hosts unwilling to take her in,”( pg 107). Having Mary as a guest in their house proved to be an obstacle, but even though Corrie understood the problem she posed, she was still willing to have Mary in her house to protect her from the
They took the ten Boom family to the police station anyway. Although they were taken to the station, the family wouldn’t give up the secrets: “Willemse looked from Betsie to Father to me. ‘There’s a secret room,’ he said quietly.’ And people are using it or they would have admitted it. All right. We’ll set a guard around the house till they’ve turned to mummies,’” (pg 132). They risked further and harsher punishment to protect the lives of the Jews they were