Betsie's Promise in Ravensbrück

In the winter of 1944, Betsie ten Boom lay dying on a thin mattress in Ravensbrück concentration camp, her body wasted by forced labor and disease. Her sister Corrie knelt beside her, surrounded by the stench of suffering and the groans of women packed into barracks meant for a fraction of their number. Fleas crawled across the straw bedding. Death felt closer than God.…