Occupation authorities had recently visited her, and she was too fearful to return home. She told the Ten Booms that she was a Jew and that her husband had been arrested several months before, and her son had gone into hiding. In May 1942, a well-dressed woman came to the Ten Boom door with a suitcase in hand. In 1923, she helped organize girls' clubs, and in the 1930s these clubs grew to become the very large Triangle Club. She was a very devout Christian and an active member of the Dutch Reformed church. Corrie fell in love with a man named Karel, but his family's intentions that he "marry well" interfered with their romance.Ĭorrie began training as a watchmaker in 1920 and in 1922 became the first female watchmaker licensed in the Netherlands.
Nollie, a school teacher, married Flip van Woerden, a fellow teacher, and they had six children one son, named Peter, was a musical child prodigy. He married a woman named Tine and had four children. He wrote a dissertation on racial anti-Semitism at theological college in 1927 in preparation for his ordination. Willem graduated from a theology school and warned the Dutch that unless they took action, they would fall to the Nazis. They lived in a house on Barteljorisstraat 19 with three of her mother's sisters: Aunt, or Tante, Jans (pronounced 'yunss'), Anna and Bep.
They had two siblings - a sister, Nollie, and a brother, Willem. Her older sister, Elisabeth (Betsie), was born with pernicious anemia. Her father Casper ten Boom was a well-liked watch repairman, and often referred to as "Haarlem's Grand Old Man". Her mother died of a stroke at the age of 63. The family moved to Haarlem 8 months after Corrie was born. Corrie ten Boom was born on April 15, 1892, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, as the youngest of four children.
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