The Watchmaker's Daughter and the Knock at the Door

In May 1942, a frightened woman knocked on the door of a small watchmaker's shop at 19 Barteljorisstraat in Haarlem, Netherlands. She was Jewish, desperate, and begging for a place to hide. Corrie ten Boom opened the door and hesitated. Sheltering Jews from the Nazi occupation meant risking her entire family's lives. She turned to her eighty-four-year-old father, Casper — a man who had read Scripture aloud at the family table every morning for as long as anyone could remember.…