Ten Boom Museum

The house where the museum is located was purchased and restored in 1983 by the Corrie ten Boom Fellowship, a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation governed by a board of directors.

During the Nazi occupation of Haarlem starting in 1942, they provided safe harbour for Jews and other underground refugees in a hiding place they built upstairs.

Their large social network in church charities and watchmaker circles made the family quite successful in smuggling refugees until it was betrayed on February 28, 1944.

Casper ten Boom, the father, died on March 9, 1944, less than two weeks later, in Scheveningen prison, at 84.

Corrie ten Boom survived Ravensbrück and returned to Haarlem and the watch shop.