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[2023]
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A New York Times best-selling author writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during World War II--at the cost of losing her family and being sent to a concentration camp, only to survive, forgive her captors and live the rest of her life as a Christian missionary
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"I pray that God forgive them..." Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner. "Oh, the poor woman," Corrie cried. "Yes. May God forgive her," Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that it was for the souls of the brutal Nazi guards that her sister prayed. Both woman had been sent to the camp for helping the Jews. Christ's Spirit and words were their guide; it was His...
16) The hiding place
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Traces the life of Corrie Ten Boom, from the quiet years before World War II, to her work with the "underground" in helping to save the lives of countless Jewish families and her eventual arrest and imprisonment in one of Nazi Germany's most dreaded concentration camps.
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Pub. Date
1971 and 1984
Description
"In World War II, she & her family risked their lives to help Jews escape from the Nazis, & their reward was a concentration camp... Only Corrie ten Boom survived to tell the story of how faith triumphed over evil, a story that would touch the hearts of millions. 'The hiding place' is a riveting page-turner describing how a middle-aged Dutch watchmaker became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, & one of the most...
18) The Hiding place
Pub. Date
1983
Description
Traces the life of Corrie Ten Boom, from the quiet years before World War II, to her work with the "underground" in helping to save the lives of countless Jewish families.
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p2005
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An old Dutch watchmaker and his two daughters become the center of a major underground operation: to hide Jewish refugees from the occupying Germans. They break all the rules to save the lives of men, women, and children being hunted by the Nazis. The cost of their bravery is betrayal, and they end up in the dreaded Ravensbruck concentration camp. Nevertheless, they continue their efforts to save those around them.
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