Since you asked to see these photos, I'm putting them on the blog. In July 2003 I had the opportunity to travel to Haarlem, Holland, where Corrie Ten Boom lived with her father, Casper and her sister, Betsie. The house (left) is now a museum and the watch shop is still in operation today. The Ten Boom family, under the leadership of Casper, risked their own safety to harbor Jewish refugees during World War II. Their living room sits atop the watch shop with the dining room and kitchen behind. The rest of the house winds around and up behind those rooms. No architectural changes have been made since they lived there.
Here is their dining room window. If you remember the story, they would put the small, red, triangular Alpina Watch sign up as a signal that it was safe for Jews to enter the house. You can see it perched on the middle of the sill.
The Hiding Place was created behind a fake brick wall in Corrie's bedroom. It is approximately 6-feet wide and not even 2-feet deep. 6 people could fit uncomfortably inside this compartment. In order to enter the Hiding Place we were instructed to lie face-down on the floor with our feet toward the closet to the left. Then we had to back into the space and stand up as quickly and quietly as possible. It was a challenge! You can see that some bricks have been taken out of the space and plaques in different languages are hung with prayers for God's people written on them.
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