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The Easy Decision: Corrie's Story

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The Easy Decision Would you help a group of people who could put you and your family in danger of death and torture? When War World Two started Corrie saw that the Jews were being persecuted without any hint of mercy from the sickening Nazis. She would watch them be taken away just because they were a Jew and for no other reason. When she had the option of joining ‘the underground’, a string of operations set to help the Jews and to help anyone involved with the Jews, Corrie agreed, but had she had known what was going to happen up ahead would she have chosen to join and help the underground which had cost Corrie her sister’s life and her father’s? If Corrie had had these struggles with should I or should I not, the ‘would not’ side would …show more content…

The Ten Boom family lived only a block away from the police station, which would put their lives in greater danger. If one of their neighbors heard an unusually noise from inside of the Ten Boom house they might get suspicious and get the Ten Booms arrested. Casper Ten Boom, who was the father of Corrie, was a great help with the children of the town. He was known as “Opa”. He could keep helping them if they did not join the underground, because Casper might be nervous to bring the children into the house to help them because children talk way too much and who knows what adult could hear the gossip about the Ten Booms hiding the Jews and tell the police and get them arrested. The kids were the next generation and needed to be taught the ways of life through a much older and much wiser man. If they were arrested what would Betsie Ten Boom do about her heart issues? Betsie was already in trouble at home being sick with her heart and weak body. If she was admitted into a concentration camp she would be in even more trouble there because she would have no help from a caring physician with almost no patients to care

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