Ten Boom, Corrie
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Evangelical Dutch Christian worker, evangelist and author; born Cornelia Arnolda Johanna ten Boom on April 15, 1892 in Amsterdam; along with her entire family was active in Protestant church work in the Netherlands where she started a nationwide Christian girls club; during World War II she and other members of her family helped to hide Jews and other refugees from Nazis; arrested along with her father and sister in 1944 and sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp; only family member to survive; after the war, she organized support for displaced persons and others traumatized by the conflict; became an evangelist and traveled around the world several times; published a book in 1972, THE HIDING PLACE, telling about her family's wartime work; the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's World Wide Pictures made a theatrically released film adaptation of the book in 1975; died in California on her birthday in 1983.
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Apartheid
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Belief and doubt
Christian leadership
Christian life
Christian literature
Christian martyrs
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Church work with children
Church work with refugees
Evangelicalism
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Jews
Mass media in religion
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Pentecostal women
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