Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch Christian Holocaust survivor. In fact, it’s possible that she was the first women to head a resistance movement against the Nazis in her country. Corrie ten Boom dedicated her life to helping others in need, and telling her story. Now, I’m am going to tell her story. Corrie ten Boom was born on April 15, 1892 in Haarlem Netherlands. Known as "Corrie" all her life, she was the youngest child, with two sisters, Betsie and Nollie, and one brother, Willem. The family were strict Calvinists in the Dutch Reformed Church. Her grandfather was a watchmaker, who had his own shop, and above the shop is where they lived. Eventually the shop was inherited by Casper, her father. After her mother died, Corrie trained to be a …show more content…
Within months, the "Nazification" of the Dutch people began and the quiet life of the ten Boom family was changed forever. In keeping with their true Christian beliefs the family had always operated their home as a open house for those in need, helping whenever, and whomever, they could. So when their Jewish neighbors were at risk, the Booms hid them in their home and helped them to escape Holland. In May 1942, a woman showed up at the Boom's door. She told them that she was a Jew and that her husband had been arrested by the Nazis. She asked for their help, and they agreed to allow the woman to stay with them. These two acts of kindness sparked the beginning of "the Hiding Place”. The hiding place was false wall that was constructed in Corrie's bedroom, creating a small hidden room where the refugees could hide. The room was no larger than a small wardrobe closet. There could be six or seven people hiding in the room. There was a buzzer, so if danger was near, they buzzer went off and they had a little less than a minute to cram into the hidden room. The Boom family went on the this for about 2 years and an estimated 800 Jews were …show more content…
Corrie said she could give him the money, but promised to help him. Well, it turns out that the man was actually working for the Nazis, and he turned the family into the Gestapo. The police raided the home and shop, arresting the family along with 35 other people but, the people never found the 6 jews hidden the the secret room, which later retreated to a different hiding place when it was clear. The family was first sent to Scheveningen prison, while the other people in the building were sent free. Casper, Corrie’s father, become ill and died after 10 days of imprisonment. On June 1944, Corrie and Betsie were sent to the Vught Political Concentration Camp. Then, in September, the girls were sent to Ravenbrück Concentration Camp. On December 16, Betsie died in Ravenbrück. In late December, Corrie was released. Corrie was released just one week before her age was gassed. After she was released, she went to Groninger, Holland and set up a rehabilitation center for concentration camp survivors. After she recovered, she returned to her home in Haarlem, Netherlands. Then in 1946, 2 years after her release, she began ministry, which took her to over 60 countries. She received many tributes, including being knighted by the queen of the Netherlands, honored by the State of Israel, and trees planted for her. In 1971, when she was 79, she wrote a
I decided to watch the testimony of Sally Roisman, a holocaust survivor. Sally had a strictly orthodox family, with a mother, father, and 10 siblings. Their family owned a textile mill which made dresses and suits. Sally attended a Jewish girls school but didn’t get the chance to finish her education before her school was closed down. Her teachers said very good things about her and that made her and her mother happy. Sally later returned and studied to finish school after the war. She still studies to make up for her loss today. Her family lived in an apartment complex were 15 families lived. 50% of the families were Jews in the complex.
In researching testimony, I chose to write about Eva Kor’s experience during the Holocaust. Eva and her family were taken to Auschwitz II- Birkenau from a Ceheiu which was a Romania ghetto in the 1940’s. Eva’s story starts out in Port, Romania where she was born and raised with her family before the Holocaust. Eva’s family consisted of her twin sister Miriam,two older sisters Aliz and Edit, and her parents Alexander and Jaffa. The last time Eva saw her father and sisters were when they arrived in Auschwitz after exiting the train. Eva and Miriam were with their mother until a man asked if they were twins.Their mother said yes, after asking if that was a good thing and then they were taken away never to see her again. Once taken away, they were brought to a barrack for twins where they were kept for Mengele to conduct experimentations.
To start off, Anne Frank stayed optimistic while she and her family were in hiding away from the Nazi Army. She writes in her diary, Kitty, about her experience in hiding. On Saturday, July 11, she writes,”Father, Mother, and Margot still can’t get used to the chiming of the Westertoren clock, which tells us the time every quarter of an hour. Not me, I liked it from the start, it sounds so reassuring, especially at night. You no doubt want to hear what I think of being in hiding. Well,all I can say is that I don’t really know yet. I
Although she was never a Nazi supporter, she did risk her life for those she had never met. Her life became one of sacrifice, always looking to help another needy face. A major decision she made was to find a safe place for Jews to hide, whether that be in her own house, or somewhere else. Duckwitz did not hide Jews so close to home, but he found a safe haven: Sweden. George Ferdinand Duckwitz and Corrie Ten Boom both had strong wills, but neither of them could bring themselves to kill anyone. They both made mistakes, they both made dangerous friends, and they both made it through. Corrie could have never dreamed of becoming a Nazi. She lied and cheated, but only for the benefit of others. As soon as Georg saw the turn for the worse in the Nazi party, he looked for a way out. He could not leave, for he would have been killed, but he one hundred percent, worked to help the Danish Jews however he could.
They had to sacrifice their place to many others -sometimes strangers, their food, and their privacy. At some point all the people in the family dreaded that they allowed so many people into the annex with them, and it caused conflict between the families as well as among family members. An example was when Mrs. Frank lost her temper on Mr. Van Daan and said things like “ I’ve watched you day after day and held my tongue. But not any longer! Not after this! Now I want you them to go! I want him to get out of here!” (620) That is a prime example of how people change when they are locked in the same room, because before the Franks went into hiding, Mrs. Frank would have never snapped on somebody the way that she did. During this time in history, Hitler had all of the Jewish people taken to concentration camps and did unimaginable horrible things to them, so that’s why all the Jews were either taken to the camps, fled to other countries, or went into hiding like the Frank family did. Just being the race that they were took courage alone. Anne and the rest of the family had to have courage and be brave because they wouldn’t have survived through the war if they were cowardly and fearful about where their next meal was coming from or if they were going to be caught in hiding. The Franks also had to give each other courage and keep positive thoughts, even if they did not
Nannie Doss was born on November 4th 1905, she lived in Blue Mountain, Alabama with an abusive father. She was one of the five siblings in the family and she had one brother and three sisters. She had an unhappy childhood because James would always force his children to work in the family farm rather than letting them go to school. Because James would keep them at home to work in the farm she was not a very good student. When Nannie was 7 she was on a train to visit some of her relatives in southern Alabama when the train stopped suddenly and Nannie hit her head on a metal bar. Years after that she would have severe headaches and suffer depression. She would blame this incident for her mental instability. During Childhood her favorite hobby
Women went through many hardships during the Holocaust, but many didn’t differ from the ones that men went through. It would be incorrect to say that women and men went through exactly the same things. While they did go through many similar things women were treated slightly differently because of their gender.
One reason that could justify the Corrie’s of lying would be that she is saving lives. On page 107 in the book The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom lies to the Nazi soldiers for the first time. She gets angry at Nollie when she tells the soldiers that Bob and Peter are hiding under the
I could hear her soft voice saying it. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don’t let me go mad by poking about outside it.” I like this quote so much because it makes the title of the book have a different meaning. Throughout the whole book I thought the “Hiding place was the Beje, their home, because they were hiding Jews there. Or maybe it was the organization the Corrie Ten Boom was leader of. When I read that, it brought the whole book together. Without that simple paragraph, the book would lose a whole level of
The Holocaust continues to exist as a black mark in the history of Germany; through the government supported torture and extermination of both men and women, more than 6 million lost their lives. As a consequence of the collective tragedy for both sexes, there has been much debate pertaining to the focus of gender specific suffering in Holocaust literature; for this reason, the Holocaust accounts of women writers were largely ignored prior to the 1970’s. Many historians still refute disparities existed between the male and female experience. However, it is worth noting that the social, familial, and cultural expectations of men and women, both prior to and during the war, varied greatly. Moreover, these diverging roles promoted distinctively different coping, processing, and accounting of the tragedies stemming from the Holocaust. By examining the unique experiences of women, both within and outside the concentration camps, one can logically conclude these remarkable accounts broaden the scope of Holocaust literature. Embedded gender roles helped the survival efforts of women, and these unique female perspectives are valuable in accurately portraying the Holocaust experience.
The children during the holocaust had many struggles with their physical health. They were forced to stay in very small places and were unable to have contact with a doctor if they had gotten sick. Also they had a lack of food and some children in their host homes would get abused and mistreated. At least a little over one million children were murdered during the holocaust (“Children’s diaries”). Out of all the Jewish children who had suffered because of the Nazis and their axis partners, only a small number of surviving children actually had wrote diaries and journals (“Children’s diaries”). Miriam Wattenberg is one out of the hundreds of children who wrote about their life story during the time of the holocaust (“Children’s Diaries”). She was born October 10, 1924 (“Children’s Diaries”). Miriam started writing her diary in October 1939, after Poland surrendered to the German forces (“Children’s Diaries”). The Wattenberg family fled to Warsaw in November 1940 (“Children’s Diaries”). At that time she was with her parents and younger sister (“Children’s Diaries”). They all had to live in the Warsaw ghetto (“Children’s Diaries”). Halina, another child survivor, tells what happened to her while in hiding. Halina and her family went into hiding ...
of the hiding of Jews such as the Frank family, the Van Daan family, and Dr.
Around the year 1885, Mae decided to become a foster parent because as she grew up babysitting in her teenage years she realized that she loves children. Mae fostered seven amazing kids that she continues to love daily. The first kid that she fostered was a girl and her name has been Kendra just a baby when she was fostered, she was about six months old. All the kids she fostered love
Annelies Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Because of their Jewish faith, Anne Frank and her family fled Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1933 to avoid persecution. After Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1942, the family spent two years living in a small hidden room in Amsterdam in order to elude capture by Nazi occupation forces. They were discovered in 1944 and arrested. Anne was sent to a concentration camp, where she died the following year. Her famous diary of the two years she spent in hiding was later found in the room where she and her family had lived. Anne’s father, Otto, had taken the family to Amsterdam, where he had established a small food products business. When Germany invaded The Netherlands in 1940, the Franks once again became subject to escalating anti-Semitic persecution. In 1941 Anne was required to transfer from a public school to a Jewish school. Secretly, Otto Frank prepared a hiding place by sealing off several rooms at the rear of his Amsterdam office building. A swinging bookcase hid the rooms Frank concealed.
On June 12, 1929, at 7:30 AM, a baby girl was born in Frankfort, Germany. No one realized that this infant, who was Jewish, was destined to become one of the worlds most famous victims of World War II. Her name was Anne Frank. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank and B.M. Mooyaart, was actually the real diary of Anne Frank. Anne was a girl who lived with her family during the time while the Nazis took power over Germany. Because they were Jewish, Otto, Edith, Margot, and Anne Frank immigrated to Holland in 1933. Hitler invaded Holland on May 10, 1940, a month before Anne?s eleventh birthday. In July 1942, Anne's family went into hiding in the Prinsengracht building. Anne and her family called it the 'Secret Annex'. Life there was not easy at all. They had to wake up at 6:45 every morning. Nobody could go outside, nor turn on lights at night. Anne mostly spent her time reading books, writing stories, and of course, making daily entries in her diary. She only kept her diary while hiding from the Nazis. This diary told the story of the excitement and horror in this young girl's life during the Holocaust. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl reveals the life of a young innocent girl who is forced into hiding from the Nazis because of her religion, Judaism. This book is very informing and enlightening. It introduces a time period of discrimination, unfair judgment, and power-crazed individuals, and with this, it shows the effect on the defenseless.