What was the Dutch Resistance? What did they do and how did they do it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Dutch Resistance in WW2 covertly worked against the Nazis in Holland during WW2<\/a>. Their work included helping to hide Jews that were facing persecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read more about the Dutch Resistance in WW2 and how Corrie ten Boom became involved with them after Germans occupied Holland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n After invasion and occupation, life changed. The Germans restricted information\u2014what people were allowed to read, watch, or listen to. <\/strong>Early in the occupation, the Germans ordered that all privately owned radios were to be handed over, lest the population hear broadcasts from Allied nations. The ten Booms chose to defy the confiscation order. Accordingly, when the German requisition officer visited the Beje<\/a> to ask if the family had a radio or other contraband materials, Corrie lied and told him that they didn\u2019t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This was one of the first moral conflicts of the war she faced. Corrie knew that lying was a sin, expressly forbidden by the Ten Commandments<\/strong>. By lying to the requisition officer, Corrie had taken her first steps toward joining the Dutch Resistance. She was to take many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The decision to join the Dutch Resistance during the Holocaust was a turning point for Corrie<\/strong>. She knew that working with the underground would mean lying, defying authority, stealing, forging, and possibly even violence, all of which was in direct violation of her bedrock Christian faith. Yet that same faith also told her she could not sit idly by while her neighbors were being persecuted. She prayed for the answer to the question\u2014how should a Christian act when evil is in power?<\/p>\n\n\n\n A neighbor, a rabbi, implored Casper to take his Torah and Talmud, sacred Jewish religious texts, for safekeeping. This rabbi feared that he would soon be arrested and deported by the Germans, and wanted to know that these holy texts would be safe from harm. Casper agreed to do so\u2014shortly after, the rabbi disappeared, and he was never seen again by Corrie or anyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One night after the curfew, Corrie\u2019s nephew Kik (Willem\u2019s son) took her to a home in the fashionable suburb of Aerenhout, journeying by bicycle. There, she was introduced to the local leaders of the Dutch Resistance. The organization was committed to anonymity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The organization impressed upon Corrie the need to make sure that her safehouse was truly safe. The place in her home where Jews were hiding needed to be totally undetectable, with everyone at the Beje knowing exactly what to do in the event of a sudden raid by the Gestapo. Pickwick knew that the Beje lacked a secret room\u2014he told Corrie this needed to be addressed immediately. <\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Need for a Dutch Resistance During the Holocaust<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
A Solemn Pledge<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Meeting the Haarlem Resistance<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n