The Clerical Error That Saved a Life
In December 1944, Corrie ten Boom lay on a thin mattress in Ravensbrück concentration camp, weakened by fleas, hunger, and grief. Her sister Betsie had...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24.
In December 1944, Corrie ten Boom lay on a thin mattress in Ravensbrück concentration camp, weakened by fleas, hunger, and grief. Her sister Betsie had just died in that same barracks. Corrie was fifty-two years old, imprisoned for the crime of hiding Jewish families in a secret room behind her bedroom wall in Haarlem, Holland. Everything had been stripped away — her home, her family, her watchmaking shop, her freedom.…
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