Eighty years ago, a couple of middle-aged women and an elderly man altered the course of history. The Ten Booms, a humble family of watchmakers outside of Amsterdam, boldly saved over 800 Jewish ...
The closing pages of The Watchmaker’s Daughter feature a confrontation so improbable that it seems the stuff of fiction. Having survived World War II, Dutch Resistance heroine Corrie ten Boom finds ...
Editor’s note: During World War II in Haarlem, Holland, Corrie ten Boom and her family (father Casper, sisters Betsie and Nollie, brother Willem) actively hid Jews and Dutch boys whom SS soldiers were ...