page_title: Corrie ten Boom
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Corrie ten Boom / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: "Corrie gaat in de [uurwerk]winkel [in Haarlem] werken (1921) en geeft daarnaast catechisatielies aan verstandelijk gehandicapten. Corrie richt ook een padvinderij-groep op, genaamd 'De driehoeksmeisjes'". Zie ook de triangel op haar mouw op de foto. English: Corrie ten Boom in scouting uniform (around 1921). The triangle on her uniform refers to the name of the scouting group: "the triangle girls".
context_page_description: Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom was a Dutch Christian watchmaker and later a writer who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family members to help many Jews escape the Nazis from the Holocaust during World War II by hiding them in her home. She believed her actions were following the will of God. They were caught, and she was arrested and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Her most famous book, The Hiding Place, is a biography that recounts the story of her family's efforts and how she found hope in God while she was imprisoned at the concentration camp.
context_section_description: Corrie ten Boom was born on 15 April 1892 to a working-class family in Amsterdam, Netherlands, near Haarlem. Named after her mother, Cornelia, but known as Corrie all her life, she was the youngest child of Casper ten Boom, a jeweler and watchmaker. Her father was fascinated by the craft of watchmaking and often became so engrossed in his work that he forgot to charge customers for his services. Corrie had three older siblings: Betsie, Willem, and Nollie. Her three maternal aunts, Tante Bep, Tante Jans, and Tante Anna, lived with the family.
  She trained to be a watchmaker herself, and in 1922, she became the first woman to be licensed as a watchmaker in The Netherlands. Over the next decade, in addition to working in her father's shop, she established a youth club for teenage girls, which provided religious instruction and classes in the performing arts, sewing, and handicrafts. She and her family were Calvinist Christians in the Dutch Reformed Church, and their faith inspired them to serve their society, which they did by offering shelter, food and money to those who were in need.
caption: Corrie ten Boom c. 1921
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