Corrie Ten Boom

Inquiry Question: What made Corrie Ten Boom famous?

Conjecture: I think her heroic acts during the Holocaust made her famous.

Challenges

• Her Mom died and her sister Bestie has Pernicious Anemia
• Germany was invading and ruthless
• She was put in jail Along with her sister and father

How she overcame challenges

• To watch over her sister- She gave her sister the medicine she needed.
• To make sure the Jews where hidden- She had a experts help help her.
• To help her in jail- Nollie ( her sister ) sent her packages of clothes.

The reason she is a hero today: She helped a lot of Jews during the holocaust and afterwords did lots of charity work.

More information

• She was a watch maker and lived in the shop.
• Her father died in jail.
• Betsie Died in jail
• Many jails had horrible conditions
• She never turned down a Jew in need

Time-line

• 1892 April 15th she is born
• 1914 world war I begins
• 1920 Corrie completes watch-making apprenticeship  
• 1921 her mother dies
• 1924 she becomes Holland's 1st women watch-maker

Time-line continued

• 1940 Nazis invade Holland
• 1942 she starts helping Jews
• 1943 February 28 Corrie, and her family are arrested  
• 1945 Corrie gets out of jail
• ( the rest of her life she mostly did charity work )