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In the News (Fri 25 Dec 09)

  
  CORRIE TEN BOOM HOUSE
THE TEN BOOM FAMILY dedicated their lives in Christian service to their home was 'an open house'for anyone in need of help.
Corrie encouraged all those she met with the message that Jesus Christ is Victor over all and everything, even the misery of the concentration camp.
The aim of the Foundation is to keep alive the spiritual heritage of the Ten Boom Family of Haarlem as a sign and inspiration for many.
www.amadeus-hotel.com /GB/tenboom.htm   (801 words)

  
 History
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.
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.
Corrie was knighted by the Queen of Holland.
www.corrietenboom.com /history.htm   (990 words)

  
  Character Building Stories - Corrie Ten Boom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Corrie Ten Boom was born in 1892 into a loving family in the Netherlands.
Corrie was living with her older sister and her father in Haarlem when Holland surrendered to the Nazis.
Corrie's involvement with the Dutch underground began with her acts of kindness in giving temporary shelter to her Jewish neighbors who were being driven out of their homes.
www.usoe.k12.ut.us /curr/char_ed/stories/sketches/tenboom.html   (969 words)

  
  Haarlem Shuffle - History - Corrie ten Boom
The ten Booms were by no means the only family to risk their lives in this way but Corrie was a deeply religious woman who later exported her brand of evangelism to the rest of the world, inspired by her wartime experiences.
The ten Boom family were all devoted members of the Dutch Reformed Church and were already involved in social work in Haarlem when Holland was invaded by the Germans in May 1940.
Corrie's father, Caspar, sadly died after 10 days in German custody at Scheveningen and the sisters saw three prisons in ten months, ending up in the infamous Ravensbruck concentration camp near Berlin in Germany where they spread their Christian message amongst the women prisoners.
www.haarlemshuffle.com /history/topic.php?id=31   (941 words)

  
 Corrie Ten Boom - Portraits of Great Christians - In Touch Ministries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Corrie, who was fifty-nine at the time of her arrest, was placed in an isolation cell for the first few weeks of her imprisonment.
Corrie vowed if God allowed her to live, she would tell as many people as possible about the love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ.
For Corrie, the concentration camp was the fieriest place of all, becoming her classroom where she lived and learned the faithfulness of God.
www.intouch.org /myintouch/mighty/portraits/corrie_ten_boom_159770.html   (916 words)

  
 Jerusalem Prayer Team
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.
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.
jerusalemprayerteam.org /hidingplace.asp   (302 words)

  
 Corrie ten Boom
The ten Boom family were members of the Dutch Reformed Church, which protested Nazi persecution of Jews as an injustice to fellow human beings and an affront to divine authority.
Corrie became directly involved in these efforts when, along with her father and sister Betsie, she decided to hide Jews in the family home in Haarlem, the Netherlands.
In September 1944, the Nazis deported Corrie and Betsie ten Boom to the Ravensbrueck concentration camp in Germany.
www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10006914   (659 words)

  
 Corrie ten Boom -'The Secret Room'. True Holocaust war story from Nazi occupation of Holland
Corrie was able to rescue many Jews from certain death at the hands of the Nazi SS during the Holocaust.
Corrie was not allowed to visit her sister, but each day went to look at her through one of the hospital windows.
Corrie (short for Cornelia) ten Boom was born in Haarlem in Holland on 15 April 1892.
www.soon.org.uk /true_stories/holocaust.htm   (6574 words)

  
 Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie Ten Boom was born on April 15, 1892, in Haarlem, Holland.
Corrie was very ill to start with when she got back to her cell but actually grew strength every day under these conditions.
Corrie was not allowed to visit her sister but each day would go look through the window where her room was and check on her.
www.temple-baptist.com /history/corrie.htm   (3138 words)

  
 Museum Information
The Corrie ten Boom House is located at 19 Barteljorisstraat, Haarlem.
When you are standing in front of the Ten Boom Museum and watch shop, this is how to find the time of the next tour: There is an alley (a small street) alongside the Corrie ten Boom House.
Bavo is the beautiful Dutch Reformed Church the Ten Boom family often attended.
www.corrietenboom.com /information.htm   (1163 words)

  
 CORRIE TEN BOOM and the RAPTURE
The life and witness of Corrie Ten Boom brings us a rare example of a true saint of the West who has embraced blood covenant devotion to emerge as an overcomer.
Corrie's conviction that the pre-tribulation rapture eschatology was a false doctrine did not come by accident.
Miss Corrie Ten Boom believed that the Christian believers were Christ's witnesses to the ends of the earth and to the end of this age.
endtimepilgrim.org /corrie.htm   (2648 words)

  
 The My Hero Project - Corrie Ten Boom
She, along with her father, Casper Ten Boom, and sister, Betsie Ten Boom, were one of the thousands of people who took Jews into thier home, hid them from the Nazis, and gave them stolen ration cards so that they could buy food and escape to the countryside.
Corrie was still sick from the flu, so she was placed in solitary confinement for the majority of her sentence.
Corrie asked mentally why God would allow this to happen, but she left the hospital with the assurance that her sister was safe in the arms of Jesus.
myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=Corrie_Ten_Boom   (3622 words)

  
 The My Hero Project - Corrie Ten Boom
She, along with her father, Casper Ten Boom, and sister, Betsie Ten Boom, were one of the thousands of people who took Jews into thier home, hid them from the Nazis, and gave them stolen ration cards so that they could buy food and escape to the countryside.
Corrie was still sick from the flu, so she was placed in solitary confinement for the majority of her sentence.
Corrie asked mentally why God would allow this to happen, but she left the hospital with the assurance that her sister was safe in the arms of Jesus.
www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=Corrie_Ten_Boom   (3560 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Hiding Place: Books: Corrie Ten Boom,John Scherrill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Corrie ten Boom was a leader in the Dutch Underground during WWII.
This is the true story of the Ten Boom family who, during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands, upon seeing what was happening to their Jewish neighbors and friends, asked themselves this age old question "If not us,...who; if not now,...when?" They answered it, ultimately at great cost.
Eventually denounced by someone to the Nazis, the Ten Booms were arrested and their home raided and torn apart by the Gestapo, in their search for the Jews they believed to be hiding there.
www.amazon.com /Hiding-Place-Corrie-Ten-Boom/dp/0553256696   (2128 words)

  
 Corrie ten Boom
Prior to this, Susie and her husband John co-founded the ministry Yad b’ Yad (Hebrew for hand in hand.) In 2002 Yad b’ Yad merged with Bridges for Peace.
Susie is the developer of a one woman show based on the life of Corrie Ten Boom.
This moving drama recounts the efforts of one family to stand for God, and to stand with and for the Jewish people during the darkest days of the Holocaust.
www.bfpusa.org /pages/corrie.html   (269 words)

  
 Revival Sermons at SermonIndex.net - audio mp3 sermon archive: Corrie Ten Boom
In this message Corrie Ten Boom shows from the scriptures and her practical experience that we are called to have power over demons as a Christian.
It sounds like Pat Robertson is interviewing Corrie Ten Boom about details of when she was in a concentration camp.
It is incredibly interesting because she talks about being able to lead many Jews to trust in Jesus as their Savior before they died in the camps.
www.sermonindex.net /modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=14   (487 words)

  
 February 28: The Nazis Came For the Ten Boom Family
Corrie weakly struggled down the stairs, clinging to the rail so as not to fall.
Corrie became a "tramp" for the Lord, spreading the gospel of forgiveness from sins to many nations.
In wartime Holland, Corrie ten Boom and her family of watchmakers sheltered Jews in their small house-until Nazis discovered the The Hiding Place.
chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2001/02/daily-02-28-2001.shtml   (532 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Five Silent Years of Corrie ten Boom, The: Books: Pamela Rosewell Moore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Corrie's best-selling book The Hiding Place, which recounted how she and her family had hidden Jews during World War II in Holland until their betrayal and arrest by the Nazis, had launched for Corrie a worldwide ministry of travel and speaking.
This work covers the last years of Corrie ten Boom's life, and is a beautiful story of the care given to a servant of God in her old age, a work about death and care for family that is frail, and the beauty of a homecoming of a this solid dutch lady.
Corrie ten Boom was a favorite author to me in my teen years.
www.amazon.com /Five-Silent-Years-Corrie-Boom/dp/0310611210   (1788 words)

  
 EO - Programma's - Corrie ten Boom - Corrie ten Boom
In 1978 zijn er negen televisietoespraakje opgenomen met Corrie ten Boom die in een huiskamer het evangelie uitlegt aan de hand van woorden als zebrapad, zaklantaarn, wederkomst, vlekkeloos, treinkaartje, slecht, koffertje en het onderwerp ‘hebt uw vijanden lief’.
,,Corrie ten Boom liet duidelijk merken dat ze bereid was om ons lief te hebben.
Ze geven inzicht in het leven en werk van Corrie ten Boom, en in de geschiedenis van Visie.
www.eo.nl /corrietenboom   (354 words)

  
 Daily Celebrations ~ Corrie ten Boom, The Human Eye Cannot See ~ June 5 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire
A humanitarian, evangelist, and author Cornelia ten Boom (1892-1983) was born in Haarlem, Holland, the heart of Amsterdam's Jewish community.
Betrayed in 1944 by a man who came to her for help, ten Boom was imprisoned in the Ravensbruck concentration camp, "the notorious women's death camp."
Ten Boom was released from prison by a clerical error, one week before all the women her age were killed.
www.dailycelebrations.com /060501.htm   (245 words)

  
 Gallery - Corrie ten Boom Museum - Photos
The ten Boom home was a refuge for Jews, the Dutch underground, and other resisters.
A sign on the side of the museum recounts the fate of Corrie's family after the home was raided by the Nazis and the family members arrested.
The ten Boom family and their circle were responsible for saving the lives of hundreds of Jews and resisters.
fcit.coedu.usf.edu /holocaust/resource/gallery/CTBOOM.htm   (325 words)

  
 Cornelia Arnolda Johanna ten Boom - Collection 78
Corrie led Bible classes in public schools and taught Sunday school and organized and ran a network of clubs, first for girls and then for both girls and boys under the sponsorship of the Union des Amies de la Jeune Fille.
Corrie and Betsie were reunited in a prison transport which brought them to the concentration camp Vught.
There are a few items on the ten Boom family and Corrie's life before World War II, but most of the material is about her experiences in the Ravensbruck concentration camp during World War II and her work after the war as an evangelistic speaker in many different parts of the world.
www.wheaton.edu /bgc/archives/GUIDES/078.htm   (3987 words)

  
 The Question of God . Other Voices . Corrie ten Boom | PBS
Corrie ten Boom has long been honored by evangelical Christians as an exemplar of Christian faith in action.
Inspired by Betsie's example of selfless love and forgiveness amid extreme cruelty and persecution, Corrie established a post-war home for other camp survivors trying to recover from the horrors they had escaped.
Corrie's devout moral principles were tested when, by chance, she came face to face with one of her former tormentors in 1947.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/questionofgod/voices/boom.html   (686 words)

  
 Corrie Ten Boom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
interviewing Corrie Ten Boom about details of when she was in a concentration camp.
It is incredibly interesting because she talks about being able to lead many Jews to trust in Jesus as their Savior before th4ey died in the camps.
Corrie ten Boom shows from the scriptures and her practical experience that we are called to have power over demons as a Christian.
www.kamglobal.org /Store/CorrieTenBoom.htm   (284 words)

  
 Writings from Corrie Ten Boom
Would you like to know what Corrie Ten Boom is really like?” Then I told them what happened the evening before — how my own sleep had been more important in my eyes than the salvation of young people.
But the joy is that Corrie Ten Boom knew what to do with her sins.
That night, Connie said, “Tante Corrie, this is very difficult for me to say, but I now realize I must walk in the light.” One by one she began listing the things in my life which bothered her — the things I did which she did not believe glorified God.
www.ecclesia.org /truth/corrie.html   (6504 words)

  
 Corrie Ten Boom - Online Sermons
Many Christians know the story of Corrie ten Boom through her book The Hiding Place, and the motion picture released by the same name in the 1970s.
It is the story of a Gentile Christian family who spearheaded a rescue operation in Holland that helped hundreds of Jews escape the Nazi extermination camps.
Like faithful Ruth, the ten Booms took their allegiance to the Jews seriously.
sermons.christiansunite.com /Corrie_Ten_Boom.shtml   (143 words)

  
 Museum Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Corrie ten Boom House is located at 19 Barteljorisstraat, Haarlem.
When you are standing in front of the Ten Boom Museum and watch shop, this is how to find the time of the next tour: There is an alley (a small street) alongside the Corrie ten Boom House.
Bavo is the beautiful Dutch Reformed Church the Ten Boom family often attended.
www.corrietenboom.nl /information.htm   (1163 words)

  
 Corrie Ten Boom: The Life and Work of a Brave Women
Corrie ten Boom was a brave woman who hid and witnessed to many Jews in Holland.
In 1944 the ten Booms were caught and Corrie and her sister were sent to a concentration camp in Berlin.
After a few years in the camp she was mysteriously released and found her way back home.
www.freewebs.com /corrie_ten_boom/index.htm   (132 words)

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