For two years, they helped Jews find hiding places, even keeping some in their own home – a decision that would cost them dearly, but one they never regretted. And of course, there were the Jews.ĭuring the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Betsie - along with her father and sister - worked with the Dutch Underground.
Along with her father and sister, she was a foster parent to children of foreign missionaries who were sent back home by their families for education. She taught Sunday school and, along with her sister Corrie, organized social clubs for teenage girls. So as her mother had done when she was alive, Betsie kept soup and coffee simmering on the stove to share with anyone who came by. Like her father, Betsie had a love for the people around her and a conviction that God would want her to help where she could. It was a decision that stuck, and she remained at home with her father for most of her life.īut remaining at home didn’t mean being an isolated old spinster. So at a young age, she decided she would never marry. In 1892 - shortly after the youngest child, Corrie, was born - Casper moved his family back to Harlaam where he had grown up and took over his father’s watch shop.īorn with pernicious anemia, Betsie knew that she could never have children. She was the oldest of five children - one of whom died in infancy. Here’s a bit more about his oldest child.īetsie ten Boom was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1885 to Casper and Cor ten Boom. Rather than being chained by fear, all of his children worked - to one degree or another - with the Dutch Underground, helping their Jewish neighbors and friends. In an earlier post, I said that Casper ten Boom and his family were lights that refused to be extinguished by the Darkness that came with the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
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