Betsie's Fleas
In Barracks 28 of Ravensbrück concentration camp, Betsie ten Boom knelt on a filthy straw mattress and thanked God for fleas. Her sister Corrie thought...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Matthew 5:1-12a.
In Barracks 28 of Ravensbrück concentration camp, Betsie ten Boom knelt on a filthy straw mattress and thanked God for fleas. Her sister Corrie thought she had lost her mind. It was 1944. They had been arrested for hiding Jewish neighbors in their Haarlem watch shop. Now they slept shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of women in a lice-infested dormitory that reeked of decay.…
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