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Betsie ten Boom
Dutch concentration camp victim (1885-1944) · Netherlands · Died at 59
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Something wrong?Elisabeth ten Boom was a Dutch woman, the daughter of a watchmaker, who suffered persecution under the Nazi regime in World War II, including incarceration in Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she died aged 59.
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Elisabeth ten Boom was a Dutch woman, the daughter of a watchmaker, who suffered persecution under the Nazi regime in World War II, including incarceration in Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she died aged 59. The daughter of Casper ten Boom, she is one of the leading characters in The Hiding Place, a book written by her sister Corrie ten Boom about the family′s experiences during World War II. Nicknamed Betsie, she had suffered from pernicious anemia since birth. The oldest of four Ten Boom children, she neither left the family nor married, but remained at home until World War II. She was honored by the State of Israel in 2008 as a Righteous Among the Nations.
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