The Clerical Error That Opened a Grave

On December 16, 1944, Betsie ten Boom died in the Ravensbruck concentration camp, whispering her final words to her sister Corrie: "We must tell people what we have learned here. We must tell them that there is no pit so deep that God's love is not deeper still." Twelve days later, Corrie's number was called. She assumed she was being summoned to her own death.…