Ten Boom

Ten Boom is a Dutch surname, and can refer to:

  • Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983), author and Holocaust survivor who helped many Jews escape the Nazis during World War II
  • Betsie ten Boom (1885-1944), Corrie's sister, also helped hide Jews in their home
  • Casper ten Boom (died 1944), father of Corrie and Betsie, also helped save Jews

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    We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things had better work here, because here, beneath that immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent.
    Joan Didion (b. 1935)