<P> Corrie trained to be a watchmaker herself and in 1922 became the first woman licensed as a watchmaker in Holland . Over the next decade, in addition to working in her father's shop, she established a youth club for teenage girls, which provided religious instruction as well as classes in the performing arts, sewing and handicrafts . She and her family were Calvinists in the Dutch Reformed Church, and their faith inspired them to serve their society, offering shelter, food, and money to those in need . </P> <P> In May 1940, the Nazis invaded the Netherlands . Among their restrictions was banning the youth club . In May 1942, a well - dressed woman came to the ten Booms' with a suitcase in hand and told them that she was a Jew, her husband had been arrested several months before, her son had gone into hiding, and Occupation authorities had recently visited her, so she was afraid to go back . She had heard that the ten Booms had helped their Jewish neighbors, the Weils, and asked if they might help her too . Casper ten Boom, Corrie's father, readily agreed that she could stay with them, despite the police headquarters being only half a block away . A devoted reader of the Old Testament, he believed that the Jews were the' chosen people', and he told the woman, "In this household, God's people are always welcome ." The family then became very active in the Dutch underground hiding refugees; they honored the Jewish Sabbath . The family never sought to convert any of the Jews who stayed with them . </P> <P> Thus the ten Booms began "The Hiding Place", or "De Schuilplaats", as it was known in Dutch (also known as "de Béjé", pronounced in Dutch as' bayay', an abbreviation of their street address, the Barteljorisstraat). Corrie and her sister Betsie opened their home to refugees--both Jews and others who were members of the resistance movement--being sought by the Gestapo and its Dutch counterpart . They had plenty of room, although wartime shortages meant that food was scarce . Every non-Jewish Dutch person had received a ration card, the requirement for obtaining weekly food coupons . Through her charitable work, Ten Boom knew many people in Haarlem and remembered a couple who had a disabled daughter . The father was a civil servant who by then was in charge of the local ration - card office . She went to his house one evening, and when he asked how many ration cards she needed, "I opened my mouth to say,' Five,"' ten Boom wrote in The Hiding Place . "But the number that unexpectedly and astonishingly came out instead was:' One hundred ."' He gave them to her and she provided cards to every Jew she met . </P> <P> The refugee work done at the Beje by ten Boom and her sister became known by the Dutch Resistance . The Resistance sent an architect to the ten Boom home to build a secret room adjacent to ten Boom's room for the Jews in hiding, as well as an alert buzzer to warn the refugees to get into the room as quickly as possible . </P>

Who helped corrie find the ration cards she needed
find me the text answering this question