The Watchmaker's Daughter Who Found Hope in Ravensbrück

In 1944, Corrie ten Boom stood shivering in the delousing shower at Ravensbrück concentration camp, stripped of everything — her home in Haarlem, her watchmaking trade, her beloved father Casper, who had died ten days after their arrest for hiding Jewish families. She had every reason to despair. Yet something unbreakable held. In the barracks where fleas infested every straw mattress, Corrie and her sister Betsie gathered women each evening to read from a smuggled Bible.…