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Corrie ten Boom

1892 - 1983

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Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom (15 April 1892 – 15 April 1983) was a Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family members to help many Jewish people escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II by hiding them in her home. They were caught, and she was arrested and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Her most famous book, The Hiding Place, is a biography that recounts the story of her family's efforts and how she found and shared hope in God while she was imprisoned at the concentration camp. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Corrie ten Boom is the 2,548th most popular writer (up from 3,418th in 2019), the 408th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 549th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Dutch Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Corrie ten Boom ranks 2,548 out of 7,302. Before her are Petter Dass, Amélie Nothomb, Kamalaśīla, Giovanni Pascoli, Chariton, and Ki no Tsurayuki. After her are Alois Jirásek, Ariwara no Narihira, Neil Simon, Dmytro Dontsov, Nikolay Kostomarov, and Ceija Stojka.

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Among people born in 1892, Corrie ten Boom ranks 123. Before her are Djuna Barnes, James M. Cain, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, Adolf Ziegler, Eugen Meindl, and Rebecca West. After her are Paul Douglas, Hermann Breith, Edoardo Agnelli, Fyodor Raskolnikov, Otto Nerz, and Yi Kwang-su. Among people deceased in 1983, Corrie ten Boom ranks 89. Before her are Louison Bobet, Joan Robinson, Bernard Vukas, Hennes Weisweiler, Rebecca West, and Donald Maclean. After her are Ibrahim Abboud, Ángel Labruna, Juan López Fontana, Charlie Rivel, Florence Owens Thompson, and Johan Grøttumsbråten.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Corrie ten Boom ranks 408 out of 1,646. Before her are Marc Overmars (1973), Olivier van Noort (1558), Peter Hans Kolvenbach (1928), Cornelis de Bruijn (1652), Ronald de Boer (1970), and Jacob van Eyck (1590). After her are Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621), Herman Gorter (1864), Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635), Anna van Egmont (1533), Karel Dujardin (1622), and Pieter Bleeker (1819).

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Among WRITERS In Netherlands

Among writers born in Netherlands, Corrie ten Boom ranks 15. Before her are Dick Bruna (1927), Isaac Titsingh (1745), Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (1862), Cornelis Tromp (1629), Jacob Cats (1577), and Cornelis de Bruijn (1652). After her are Herman Gorter (1864), Louis Couperus (1863), Cornelis Vreeswijk (1937), Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581), Jacob Israël de Haan (1881), and Gerard Reve (1923).

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