Official website of the Corrie ten Boom museum in Haarlem, Holland. Visitors can view the actual 'hiding place' where Jews were sheltered during World War II; and tour the restored original home of the ten Boom family.

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2012年3月25日 · The others were Willem, Betsie, and Nollie. Her devoutly Christian family lived with three of Corrie's aunts in a house called the 'Beje', which was situated above her father's watch shop in Haarlem, the Netherlands. But, by the time the war began, only she, Betsie, and their father, Caspar, remained in the Beje.

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One night, the Gestapo invade the Beje. All nonfamily members hide, but the soldiers beat and interrogate Corrie and Betsie as they search for the hidden room and the Jews.

When no secret room is found and word is out that the Beje is a trap, the agents decide to surround the house, until the people in the secret room come out or die. The Gestapo marches the ten Boom family to the police station. For hours the people, thirty-five in all, must give names and addresses to the agents.

Jews whose houses or shops have been targeted by the Gestapo begin sleeping at the Beje, fearing deportation. Corrie asks Willem to find these people safer and more permanent places in the countryside, but it’s hard to place fugitives without ration cards, which are not issued to Jews.

2016年4月17日 · On February 28, 1944, this family was betrayed and the Gestapo (the Nazi secret police) raided their home. The Gestapo set a trap and waited throughout the day, seizing everyone who came to the house. By evening about 30 people had been taken into custody! Casper, Corrie and Betsie were all arrested.

1983年4月17日 · Corrie obtains food cards and safe hiding places for Jews outside the Beje from people whom her family has previously helped, and she coordinates a network of underground workers.

Corrie, her father, Betsie and many others of ‘The Underground’ help hundreds of people find safe places to hide and live during the war. One night the Beje is raided. Corrie, her father, Betsie and their family and workers are taken into prison; however, all the Jewish people in hiding were safe.