28, 1944, they were betrayed and Corrie and several relatives were arrested. It is estimated they were able to save the lives of 800 Jews, in addition to protecting underground workers. They were hiding, feeding and transporting Jews and underground members hunted by the Gestapo out of the country.
During the Nazi occupation, they chose to act out their faith through peaceful resistance to the Nazis by active participation in the Dutch underground. a missionary mother whose unwanted babe ended up saving her life.Īll these touchingly human vignettes from her life and travels are intertwined with the unique teaching trouch that has sustained Corrie throughout her days.Ĭorrie ten Boom and her family were Christians who were active in social work in their home town of Haarlem, the Netherlands. the travel agent who learned that her ultimate destination could not be found on any map. an African who truly followed Christ's exhortation to forgive your neighbor seventy times seven (Matt. the war-crippled lawyer with a soul that was as twisted and deformed as his limbs. her former prison guard who asks her for forgiveness.a forgiveness that come hard and with much pain.
And she, in turn, has been touched and taught by them. So deeply has she touched the hearts of men and women during her years of ministry that she is known as the venerable "Double-old Grandmother" and "Tante" Corrie to them. And through her lifelong experiences, she has learned a few lessons in God's great classroom which she shares with the readers of Tramp For the Lord. In her own words: "My life had been given back as a gift.for a purpose."Īfter her release from the concentration camp, Corrie ten Boom set out to become what she calls a "tramp for the Lord," traveling around the world at the direction of God, proclaiming His message everywhere. Her brush with death lent a new meaning to her life.
This remarkable woman of eighty-one years served time in a German concentration camp during World War II for the "crime" of hiding persecuted Jews and survived to tell the story in her best selling book, The Hiding Place. For the past twenty years Corrie ten Boom has crisscrossed the globe, slept in more than a thousand different beds, and lived out of suitcases.all to fulfill her God-given mission to tell people everywhere that Jesus Christ is reality, that He Lives, that He is Victor.
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