The Doorway She Could Not Un-Enter

In 1943, Corrie ten Boom stood in the hallway of her family's narrow house on the Barteljorisstraat in Haarlem, Netherlands. Her father Casper had just agreed to hide Jewish refugees in a secret room behind a false wall. Corrie understood what this meant. The Gestapo had already arrested neighbors for far less. She could smell the smoke from burning synagogues carried on the North Sea wind.…