Corrie ten Boom

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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After the Nazis invaded Holland, Corrie ten Boom hid more than 700 Jews in her home, six at a time, before helping them escape. On this episode of 5 Minutes in Church History, Dr. Stephen Nichols tells the story of this remarkable Christian woman.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Trichistry on this episode. We are spending time with Corey Tenbone.
0:06.0	She was born in 1892. She died in 1983.
0:11.0	She's most well known for the book she published in 1971, The Hiding Place.
0:17.0	Corey grew up in Holland. Her father was a watchmaker.
0:22.0	Her mother died and her brother married and of course moved out of the house.
0:27.0	But Corey and her sister stayed with the father. She learned her father's trade and Corey became a watchmaker.
0:35.0	In fact, she was Holland's first licensed female watchmaker.
0:40.0	The family were all members of the Dutch Reformed Church and they were not only committed to their church.
0:48.0	They were also committed to serving and being charitable in their town and in their neighborhood.
0:55.0	But all of their lives changed significantly on May 10, 1940. The Nazis invaded Holland.
1:03.0	Corey and her family became part of the resistance movement, the underground movement.
1:09.0	And they sheltered Jews and they helped them escape.
1:13.0	During the Nazi occupation of Holland over 700 to 800 Jews passed through the Tenbone House.
1:22.0	They built a secret room behind one of the walls in Corey's bedroom. It was called The Hiding Place.
1:29.0	This lasted from that beginning of the occupation until February 1944.
1:36.0	Corey and her family were all arrested. They were turned in by a Nazi collaborator by an informant.
1:44.0	When they were arrested, there were six in the hiding place. That's how many the hiding place held and it was full.
1:52.0	Well, even though they were arrested and taken out of the house, the six were never detected.
1:57.0	And eventually they were able to get out of the hiding place and to make it to the next stop and to get out and to not be detained or not be arrested.
2:06.0	Friends of Corey slipped her note while she was in prison and the note was a code and it said all of the watches in your cabinet are safe.
2:15.0	That informed her that the six indeed made it to safety.
2:19.0	Well, shortly after they were arrested, in fact, just ten days after they were arrested, her father, who was in poor health at the time, died.
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