Corrie ten Boom and the Refuge That Held

When the Nazis occupied Holland in 1940, watchmaker Casper ten Boom and his daughter Corrie made a quiet, dangerous decision. They built a hidden room behind a false wall in their Haarlem home and began sheltering Jewish families from deportation. For two years, the Beje — as their narrow house was called — became a refuge for the hunted, a place where terrified people could finally exhale.…