Corrie ten Boom's Clenched Fist

In 1947, Corrie ten Boom stood in a church basement in Munich, face to face with a man she recognized — a former guard from Ravensbruck, the concentration camp where her sister Betsie had died. He extended his hand and asked for forgiveness. Corrie later wrote that her arm froze at her side. Every memory of the camp, the cruelty, the lice-infested barracks, the slow wasting of her sister's body, surged through her like a current.…