The aspect of this story that I find fascinating is that this took place in Holland, the home of Corrie ten Boom, the Christian ... ‘Where is your secret room?’ I tasted blood in my mouth.

lived in a home known as the Beje (now the Corrie ten Boom Museum), where Casper, considered the finest watchmaker in all of Holland, ran his business on the ground floor. Corrie apprenticed with ...

So, we gathered in the living room on weekday ... the Gestapo raided the ten Boom home on Feb. 28, 1944. These secret police of Nazi Germany arrested and imprisoned Corrie and 34 others in the ...

While largely unfamiliar to most Jews, Corrie ten Boom is a well-known hero among ... a cantor from an Amsterdam synagogue. A secret room was built in Corrie's bedroom where the Jews could hide ...

The false wall was in Corrie ten Boom’s bedroom ... sister Betsie helped save 800 Jews before Feb. 28, 1944. The Nazi secret police raided the home that day and arrested the family.

Editor's note: The following is an exclusive excerpt from Larry Loftis's "The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom ... others at the Beje, and everyone ...

The ten Boom family — Corrie, her father Casper, and her sister Elisabeth — are certainly deserving of this privilege. In their honor, a tree was planted in Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust ...

One woman who saved lives and gave hope to hundreds of Dutch anti-Nazis, then demonstrated extraordinary compassion toward Nazi collaborators after the war, was Corrie ten Boom, a modest single ...