Among the names Yad Vashem honours as Righteous Among the Nations is Corrie ten Boom.
The record lists Corrie ten Boom as Dutch resistance hero and writer.
Corrie ten Boom was born at Amsterdam in 1892. Her recorded nationality is Kingdom of the Netherlands.
By occupation Corrie ten Boom was writer, autobiographer and resistance fighter - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
Rescue during the Holocaust was not a grand gesture but a sequence of small, repeatable risks taken over months or years.
Recognition: Righteous Among the Nations (1967) and Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.
Corrie ten Boom died in 1983, aged 91. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Righteous Among the Nations — 1967
- Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau
- Worked as writer, autobiographer and resistance fighter
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