Corrie ten Boom and her family hid Jews and others from the Nazis during World War II. Before the war ended they were sent to concentration camps. Ten Boom family members are heroes.
David Rossler of Walloon Brabant, Belgium, is reunited with the family that saved his life during WWII.Editor’s note: During World War II in Haarlem, Holland, Corrie ten Boom and her family actively hid Jews and Dutch boys whom SS soldiers were snatching off the street to be sent to work in German factories. They also became involved with the Dutch Resistance and were eventually caught and sent to concentration camps.
And so Corrie moved into the factory, sharing the Germans’ plight and bearing their burdens. For months she loved, comforted, and cared for them, asking nothing in return. And so in 1946, one year removed from her own incarceration in a camp like this, Corrie opened the Darmstadt facility to mirror what the Bloemendaal home had become in Holland. With the extra space, though, Darmstadt could house one hundred sixty residents. Soon the facility reached capacity and had a waiting list. The German Lutheran Church agreed to help with administration, and another group, the Lutheran Sisterhood of Mary, assisted with women and children residents.
Corrie had found the idea repulsive at the time. Never again did she want to step foot in Germany. But Betsie’s words echoed in her mind: "The Germans are the most wounded of all the people in the world." Corrie was floored. Another piece of Betsie’s vision come true. She went with the man to Darmstadt, a dilapidated former concentration camp, and walked between the barbed wire to the gray buildings. It was too familiar. "Window boxes. We’ll have them at every window. ... Green paint. Bright yellow-green, the color of things coming up new in the spring."
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