Released by Clerical Error

In December 1944, Corrie ten Boom lay on a thin mattress in Ravensbrück concentration camp, weakened by hunger and grief. Her sister Betsie had just died in the same barracks, whispering with her final breath, "We must tell people that there is no pit so deep that God's love is not deeper still."

Days later, a guard called Corrie's number. She was released — the result, she later learned, of a clerical error. Every woman her age in Ravensbrück was sent to the gas chambers just one week after her release.

Corrie spent the next thirty-three years traveling the world, proclaiming what the Lord had done. She who had been discarded into a death camp became a voice of hope to millions. The life the Nazis deemed worthless became a cornerstone of post-war Christian witness.

Her story echoes the ancient song of the psalmist: "The LORD has chastened me severely, but He has not given me over to death. I will not die but live, and will proclaim what the LORD has done." Corrie had every reason for bitterness. Instead, she chose the psalmist's refrain: "Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His love endures forever."