We made our way to Haarlem, Netherlands this morning, and have been wandering all over waiting for our hotel room to be ready. We did a windmill tour this morning, and just left the Corrie Ten Boom house. I had never heard of it before my research on this city. The Ten Boom family hid Jews during WW2. The house was used as a transition for finding more long-term hiding places. This photo shows the space where six individuals hid for 2.5 days when the place was raided by the Nazis. They would have to climb through the secret cupboard on the bottom left to get to the hidden space. Probably no more than 9’x3’. The whole on the wall is recent and there so visitors can see the space where they hid.
oh, i love the story of corrie ten boom. i read her book "the hiding place" many times when i used to live in the farm house of my ex's mother, who was a well-read woman. too bad i didn't rescue the book when the ex and his sister sold the farm house after her death. i had wanted to go back to the netherlands to see this house. i'm jealous! very nice shot, kim. aces!
@lizgooster I’m reading, “The Watchmaker’s Daughter” which is about Corrie ten Boom and her rescues. It’s an excellent book. I think my pastor read “The Hiding Place” and highly recommended it.
