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The Heroic Watchmaker In The Hiding Place By Corrie Ten Boom

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Corrie ten Boom: The Heroic Watchmaker
“This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.” Corrie ten Boom wrote this in her book The Hiding Place. She hid Jews and was imprisoned for her good deeds. This experience revealed her future, which was to tour and share how God was with her through rough times. Corrie Ten Boom is admirable because she showed bravery, selflessness, and sacrifice during hard times and she used her experience to inspire others to follow her example.
Corrie ten Boom had an adequate childhood, she was raised in a loving family and lived in a pleasant community. Although she did have a commonplace childhood, she …show more content…

The ten Boom family had a watch shop where ten Boom’s father worked. She started working at the watch shop when Betsie, ten Boom’s sister, was sick. Corrie ten Boom took her place and wrote sales, recorded the cash that was spent, and looked through past records (Ten Boom 67). Instead of working behind the desk, Corrie ten Boom wanted to help restore the watches. Her father was eager to teach her (Ten Boom 69). After working hard and learning how to repair a watch, Corrie ten Boom was named the first female watchmaker in Holland to be licensed (Corrie par. 2). In 1921, ten Boom started working full time at the family watch shop (Ten Boom 260). She worked hard to be a watchmaker and that helped her persevere later in life to stay strong and hide the Jews and helped her become an honorable …show more content…

Ten Boom’s family included her, her brother, Willem, sisters, Betsie and Nollie, mother, father, Tante Jans, Tante Bep, and Tante Anna (Corrie par. 2). Later on, when the ten Boom’s were hiding Jews, Betsie ten Boom was sent to a concentration camp and died from the torchere of being beaten and starved, she was 59 years old when she died (Can par. 1, Boom 262). Nollie ten Boom was arrested on August 14, 1943 for hiding Jews, she was imprisoned for two weeks (Boom 261). Her father dies while imprisoned on March 9, 1944 (Boom 261). Corrie ten Boom was very close to her family and was devastated when she was losing them either to death or being out in

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