Question

Hello, I need any interesting facts or good information on Corrie tan Boom and the Kindertransport. I am assigned to do a project with a WWII topic. Thanks!

Answer 1

Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch Christian who helped protect and hide Jews during World War II. The Kindertransport was a rescue effort that transferred Jewish children from Nazi-occupied territories to the United Kingdom.

Step-by-step explanation:

Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch Christian who, along with her family, helped protect and hide Jews during World War II. She was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp for her actions. The Kindertransport was a rescue effort that transferred Jewish children from Nazi-occupied territories to the United Kingdom, saving them from persecution and potential death in concentration camps.

Corrie ten Boom's story is a powerful example of resistance and compassion during the Holocaust. Her family hid Jews and others persecuted by the Nazis in a hidden room in their home. They were eventually discovered and sent to concentration camps. After the war, Corrie ten Boom became a well-known speaker about her experiences and the importance of forgiveness.

The Kindertransport was a program that operated between 1938 and 1940. It allowed nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children to escape Nazi-occupied territories and find refuge in the UK. Most of these children never saw their parents again, as many of them perished in the Holocaust.

Answer 2

The ten Boom family were members of the Dutch Reformed Church, which protested Nazi persecution of Jews as an injustice to fellow human beings and an affront to divine authority. In her autobiography, ten Boom repeatedly cited religious motivations for hiding Jews, particularly her family's strong belief in a basic tenet of their religion: the equality of all human beings before God. Their religious activities had also brought the family a history of personal connections to the Jewish community. Corrie's grandfather had supported efforts to improve Christian-Jewish relations in the nineteenth century. Her brother Willem, a Dutch Reformed minister assigned to convert Jews, studied antisemitism and ran a nursing home for elderly of all faiths. In the late 1930s that nursing home became a refuge for Jews fleeing from Germany.