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Books by Corrie ten Boom

Cornelia "Corrie" ten Boom (1892–1983) was a Dutch watchmaker and Christian who, with her family, helped hide Jewish people from the Nazis during the German occupation of the Netherlands. She was arrested in 1944, imprisoned at Scheveningen, Vught, and Ravensbrück concentration camp, and survived liberation in December 1944. After the war she traveled the world for thirty-five years speaking on forgiveness and faith, assisted by the Ravensbruck rehabilitation center she founded in accordance with her sister Betsie's dying vision. She received the designation of Righteous Among the Nations from Yad Vashem in 1967. The Hiding Place was published when she was seventy-nine.