Mike Evans Speaks At The Restoring Courage Event In Jerusalem

Mike Evans and Glenn Beck shares the same vision in Jerusalem. Both of them are ambassadors of peace and good will. The life of Corrie Ten Boom had inspired them to continue the Ten Boom's legacy and that is to help the Jewish people in every way they can. Mike Evans was invited by Glenn Beck to speak at the Restoring Courage Event in Jerusalem last Aug. 22, 2011. Watch the video below to witness the full event.

Corrie Ten Boom Museum Virtual Tour

Corrie Ten Boom Museum was created to preserve the "Hiding Place", a shelter for the Jews and other fugitives during the war. A visit to the museum will take you back in time when Nazis invaded their place. Located at Barteljorisstraat 19, Haarlem, Holland, the Corrie Ten Boom Museum used to be a watch shop owned by Willen Ten Boom. Their Christian faith had molded their hearts to become servants of the Lord with such valor that they allowed the Jews and other fugitives to hide at Ten Boom watch shop.

Learn more about Corrie Ten Boom Museum and be amazed with the stunning sights that you will see as you click the Virtual Tour link which will take you to the hiding place that God has blessed and lives were spared with the help of Corrie Ten Boom.

Take the Corrie Ten Boom Museum Virtual Tour anytime you like. A click on the pix will bring you to the the museum.

Corrie ten Boom - A War Hero In 1968

The heroic deed of Corrie ten Boom all started when the Nazis invaded Holland in the 1940's. Corrie ten Boom helped many Jews by converting her house into a hiding place for them. Her samaritan way of life had earned her respect and inspiration to those who are in despair. Her braveness was recognized by the Queen of Holland as a War Hero in 1968. Corrie was asked by the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem to plant a tree in the Garden of Righteousness, in honor of the many Jewish lives her family saved. Corrie went on to write a number of inspiring books and had been an advocate for peace. Let us be like Corrie ten Boom, a person who will offer her life just to save anyone. You can find a lot of good stories on the net about Corrie ten Boom. She truly deserves a recognition.

The Corrie ten Boom Fellowship and its sister organization, The Corrie ten Boom Foundation of Holland, is working hand in hand in carrying forth the vision of the ten Boom Family which is to care for and protect the Jewish people and to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

Holland's First Female Watchmaker

Ten Boom was born on April 15, 1892, in Haarlem, in the Netherlands. Before her first birthday, her grandfather died and left his home and watchmaking business, founded in 1837, to her father. The family, which included older sisters Betsie and Nollie, and a brother, Willem, moved into the house on Barteljorisstraat 19, and her father took over the storefront business below. The family lived in a quirky warren of rooms above the shop over three separate floors, and about Corrie Ten Boom, she and her sister Betsie shared a room at the back of the house on a high third floor. During their youth, the household also included three aunts, who helped care for the four ten Boom children.

Like Betsie, ten Boom never married, and eventually joined her father's watch sales and repair business. She also became the first licensed woman watchmaker in the Netherlands. The family members were devout Christians, active members of the Dutch Reformed church, and ten Boom followed in the footsteps of one of her aunts and participated in several charitable aid projects in Haarlem. The ten Boom home and business served as a hub of activity in their neighborhood, and they regularly provided a meal to beggars and took in foster children. All the local children were especially fond of ten Boom's pious but genial father, Casper, nicknamed "Opa," or grandfather.

Extend the 100-Year Prayer Meeting

"God does not have problems. Only plans," proclaimed Corrie ten Boom when a clerical error allowed her to be released from a Nazi concentration camp one week before all women prisoners her age were executed.

Though she was released from the horror of Ravensbruck concentration camp, Corrie continued to live with a remarkable reliance on God, just as her family had as they hid Jews from Nazi terror. Generations of ten Booms held Christian prayer meetings for Israel for 100 years prior to World War II. Click here to begin our inspirational virtual tour of the ten Boom home.

Traveling the world as an ambassador of the power of forgiveness in Christ, Corrie later established rehabilitation centers to help other Holocaust survivors. Her 1971 autobiography, The Hiding Place, became a movie in 1975, inspiring many to see God at work through the darkest of life's circumstances. You can preview a portion of this powerful movie within our virtual tour by using the compass to visit location #3.

You can become a part of Corrie ten Boom's incredible legacy.

About Corrie ten Boom

Corrie ten Boom was born on April 15, 1892, in Haarlem, in the Netherlands. The ten Boom family were members of the Dutch Reformed Church, which protested Nazi persecution of Jews as an injustice to fellow human beings and an affront to divine authority. In her autobiography, ten Boom repeatedly cited religious motivations for hiding Jews, particularly her family's strong belief in a basic tenet of their religion: the equality of all human beings before God. Their religious activities had also brought the family a history of personal connections to the Jewish community. Corrie's grandfather had supported efforts to improve Christian-Jewish relations in the nineteenth century. Her brother Willem, a Dutch Reformed minister assigned to convert Jews, studied antisemitism and ran a nursing home for elderly of all faiths. In the late 1930s that nursing home became a refuge for Jews fleeing from Germany.

After World War II began, members of the ten Boom family became involved in resistance efforts. Two nephews worked in resistance cells. Various family members sheltered young men sought by the Nazis for forced labor and assisted Jews in contacting persons willing to hide them. Corrie became directly involved in these efforts when, along with her father and sister Betsie, she decided to hide Jews in the family home in Haarlem, the Netherlands. Using her job as a watchmaker in her father's shop as a cover, Corrie built contacts with resistance workers, who assisted her in procuring ration books and building a hiding place in the family home.

Six people, among them both Jews and resistance workers, hid in this hiding place when the Gestapo raided the house on February 28, 1944. Those in hiding remained undiscovered. Several days after the raid resistance workers transferred them to other locations. In the meantime, however, the Gestapo had arrested Corrie ten Boom, her father, her brother and two sisters, and other family members. In addition, the Gestapo arrested several resistance workers who had unwittingly entered the house during the raid, as well as many family acquaintances who had been attending a prayer meeting in the living room. Altogether, the Gestapo arrested some 30 people in the ten Boom family home that day.

After holding them briefly in the penitentiary in Scheveningen, a seaside town close to The Hague, the Gestapo released all but three of the ten Boom family members. Corrie ten Boom, her older sister Betsie, and her father Casper remained in prison. Casper ten Boom became sick in prison and died in a hospital corridor only ten days after the arrest. The sisters remained in the Scheveningen prison until June 1944, when officials transferred them to an internment camp at Vught, in the Netherlands. In September 1944, the Nazis deported Corrie and Betsie ten Boom to the Ravensbrueck concentration camp in Germany. In Ravensbrueck, the sisters managed to stay together until Betsie died that December.

The camp administration released Corrie ten Boom in late December 1944. Along with other released prisoners, she traveled by train to Berlin, where she arrived on January 1, 1945. From Berlin, ten Boom journeyed across Germany by train until she reached the Netherlands, where she reunited with surviving members of her family.

After the war, ten Boom advocated reconciliation as a means for overcoming the psychological scars left by the Nazi occupation. She later traveled the world as an evangelist, motivational speaker, and social critic, referring to her experiences in Ravensbrueck as she offered solace to prisoners and protested the Vietnam War.

For her efforts to hide Jews from arrest and deportation during the German occupation of the Netherlands, Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983) received recognition from the Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority as one of the "Righteous Among the Nations" on December 12, 1967. In resisting Nazi persecution, ten Boom acted in concert with her religious beliefs, her family experience, and the Dutch resistance. Her defiance led to imprisonment, internment in a concentration camp, and loss of family members who died from maltreatment while in German custody.

Corrie died on April 15, 1983 in Orange, California, on her ninety-first birthday.