A Clerical Error in Ravensbrück

On December 28, 1944, Corrie ten Boom sat on her thin mattress in Ravensbrück concentration camp, her body weakened by months of forced labor and near-starvation. She was fifty-two years old. Her sister Betsie had died in that same camp just twelve days earlier. Back in Holland, believers who had once gathered in the ten Boom watchshop were praying — fervently, persistently, desperately — for Corrie's release.…