How long was corrie ten boom in ravensbruck

Betsie, how thin you were! Betsie and I had been arrested for concealing Jews in our home during the Nazi occupation of Holland; this man had been a guard at Ravensbruck concentration camp where we were sent.

I know that God has forgiven me for the cruel things I did there, but I would like to hear it from your lips as well. And I stood there — I whose sins had every day to be forgiven — and could not. Betsie had died in that place — could he erase her slow terrible death simply for the asking?

It could not have been many seconds that he stood there, hand held out, but to me it seemed hours as I wrestled with the most difficult thing I had ever had to do. For I had to do it — I knew that. The message that God forgives has a prior condition: that we forgive those who have injured us. And still I stood there with the coldness clutching my heart. But forgiveness is not an emotion — I knew that too. Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

You supply the feeling. Corrie's brother Willem, sister Nollie and nephew Peter were at the house that day and were also taken to prison. Although the Sicherheitsdienst arrested many visitors, they could not find who they were really after. Safely hidden behind a false wall in Corrie's bedroom were two Jewish men, two Jewish women and two members of the Dutch underground.

Although the house remained under guard by the Sicherheitsdienst, members of a local police resistance group were able, by cunnings means, to liberate the refugees from the 'hiding place' 47 hours later. The four Jews were taken to new 'safe houses', and three survived the war. One of the underground workers was killed during the war years, but the other survived.

Ten days after his arrest, father Casper died in Scheveningen Prison. Betsie and Corrie also spent some time in that same prison. Many women became Christians in that terrible place becauce of Betsie and Corrie's witness to them. Her legacy lives on, more than 35 years after her death. Contact Us. Her Story.

Betsie, Wilem, Nollie, and Corrie. Corrie's father, Casper ten Boom. Prayer Ministry.