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Corrie Ten Boom (Rescuer) Corrie Ten Boom was born a Christian, she was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. She was born on April 15, 1892 in Haarlem, Holland as the youngest of four children. Her cover up job was working for her dad as a 50 year old watchmaker while she was saving Jews from deportation and German officers by hiding them in the walls of her own house. She did what she did because she felt it was the right thing to do because she was one of those people that put herself in their shoes and acted upon what she felt was right. After a couple of years German officers caught up with what Corrie had been doing and sent her to Ravensbrϋck concentration camp. She was later released from the concentration camp and sent home to her family back in Haarlem, Holland. In 1977, Ten boom, then 85 years old moved to Orange, California. Successive strokes in 1978 took away her power of speech and communication and left her an invalid for the last five years of her life. She later died on April 15, 1983, she was 91 years old.

-Dan