The Love That Reached Ravensbrück

In the winter of 1944, Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsie huddled together on a flea-infested mattress in Barracks 28 of Ravensbrück concentration camp. They had been arrested for hiding Jewish families in their Haarlem watchshop. Everything had been stripped from them — home, family, dignity, even a small bottle of vitamin oil that Betsie desperately needed. Yet each night, by the dim light of a single bulb, the two sisters opened a smuggled Dutch Bible and read aloud to a growing circle of women.…