'Tell people what we have learned here. We
must tell them that there is no pit so deep
that He is not deeper still. They will listen
to us, Corrie, because we have been here.'
Betsie ten Boom (Corrie's sister), The Hiding
Place Out of the evil called the Holocaust
arose a witness, a voice that even the Nazis
could not silence, a voice that testified to
the power of God to overcome every wickedness
and sorrow.
Corrie ten Boom is that witness and her
powerful story recounts the courage of one
Christian family of Dutch watchmakers who
determined to save Jews and resistance workers
from the Gestapo forces that had overrun the
Netherlands. As the pressure against the Jews
grew, the risks increased and the ten Booms
accelerated their efforts. The family
transformed their quiet home into an
underground station in the network of the Dutch
Resistance, creating a safe room that would
shelter and feed scores of fugitives. For this,
all the ten Booms were arrested, from Corrie's
aging father to her young nephew. Corrie and
her sister Betsie were ultimately deported to
the Nazi death camp Ravensbrück.
Corrie
survived, though her family did not. Following
the war she began to tell her story of God's
faithfulness and his mercy, even in the darkest
and deepest pit. The same faith that compelled
the ten Boom family to stand firm in the face
of evil would continue to shape Corrie's life
as she bore witness to the great power of God's
love to forgive, to heal, and to restore.
Hardback, 288 pages
