April 15 marks the birth and death of Corrie Ten Boom. She was born in 1892 in Haarlem, Netherlands and passed away in 1983 aged 91 in Placentia, California, U.S.A due to a stroke. Corrie Ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, who help many Jewish people escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II by hiding them in her home. She is one of the most inspirational and greatest Christian figure of the 20th century. Her most famous book, The Hiding Place, is a biography that recounts the story of her family’s efforts and how she found and shared hope in God while she was imprisoned at the Ravensbrück concentration camp.