Corrie ten Boom's Empty Hands and Full Heart
When the Nazis released Corrie ten Boom from Ravensbruck concentration camp in December 1944, she walked out with almost nothing. The watch shop her family...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Hebrews 13:5-6.
When the Nazis released Corrie ten Boom from Ravensbruck concentration camp in December 1944, she walked out with almost nothing. The watch shop her family had run for a hundred years on the Barteljorisstraat in Haarlem was gone. Her father Caspar had died in Scheveningen prison. Her beloved sister Betsie had perished just days before liberation. Every material security Corrie had known — her home, her livelihood, her family — had been stripped away by human cruelty.…
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