The Day the Camps Were Opened

On April 15, 1945, British soldiers rolled through the gates of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. What they found defied description — thousands of unburied dead, tens of thousands more barely clinging to life. Among the survivors was a young Dutch woman named Corrie ten Boom, who had been transferred out weeks earlier to Ravensbruck, then released through what she later called a clerical error orchestrated by God.…