The Barracks That Became a Sanctuary
In 1944, Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsie huddled with other women in Barracks 28 at Ravensbrück concentration camp. The fleas were so thick...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17.
In 1944, Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsie huddled with other women in Barracks 28 at Ravensbrück concentration camp. The fleas were so thick the guards refused to enter. But in that filthy, overcrowded space, something remarkable happened. Each evening, Betsie would open a smuggled Dutch Bible and read aloud. Women pressed close — Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, unbelieving — translating the words into German, French, Polish, Russian.…
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