them again. Corrie and her sister, Betsie, were sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp where Betsie died less than two weeks before Corrie was released on December 31, 1944, due to a clerical error.

Corrie spent the rest of her long life spreading the news of God's forgiveness around the world. She started by writing The Hiding Place. People all over the world invited her to speak. Everywhere Corrie went she tried to visit prisoners because she knew how they felt. The most difficult place for her to go was Germany, with all its bitter memories. But God helped her to love and to forgive, even when she met some of the former guards from Ravensbruck. In her rehabilitation work with victims of the Holocaust and other camp survivors, she found that only those who were able to forgive could make a good recovery and begin to live again.

Corrie (short for Cornelia), the youngest child of watchmaker Casper and Cornelia ten Boom, was born in Haarlem, Holland. She had two sisters, Betsie and Nollie, and a brother Willem. When Corrie grew up she became the first woman in Holland to qualify as a watchmaker.