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Cornelia (Corrie) Arnolda Johanna ten Boom, the fourth and youngest child of Casper and Cor ten Boom, was born on April 15, 1892 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Soon after Corrie's birth, Casper ten Boom inherited the family watch shop at 19 Barteljorisstraat in the city of Haarlem and moved there with his family. For short, the house was referred to as the Beje (pronounced bay-yay).
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The parents, the four children (Betsie, Willem, Nollie, and Corrie), and three aunts (sisters of Mrs. ten Boom) occupied the not-too-roomy living quarters above the watch shop.
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The Ten Boom family (the Dutch prefix "ten" means "to the" and "Boom" means "tree") had a great interest in and love for the Jewish people.
In 1844, Corrie's great-grandfather, Willem ten Boom, started a meeting dedicated to praying for the Jewish people. In 1944, exactly one hundred years later, Corrie and her family we