Monthly Archives: October 2020

But after a couple of months in Vught there they were sent to the Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp in Germany. There the Nazi guards made cruelty an artform and worked people to death before replacing them with new arrivals. All personal belongings were confiscated at the outset and the prisoners were issued numbers, by which they were henceforth known. Corrie became prisoner 66730. In her possession she had a Bible and the davitamin bottle she had received from the Red…..

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The first forty-eight years of Corrie ten Boom’s life might be considered boring to some. She was born on April 15, 1892 in Amsterdam, Holland, the youngest child of Casper and Cornelia ten Boom. Her older siblings were Betsie, Willem, and Nollie. Casper ten Boom was a jeweler and watchmaker, who owned a shop in the city of Haarlem. His business was on the bottom floor, while his family lived above. Casper often became so engrossed in his watchmaking work…..

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