Prisoner And Yet

Fittingly I finished reading this reprint of Corrie Ten Booms well known book, on the eve of Holocaust Day. Originally published in 1954 it tells of the time she spent in prison on a charge of sheltering Jews in her family home in Haarlem during the Second World War. She and her sister Betsie manage to stay together even in the concentration camp at Ravensbruck from which they were finally both released. Betsie by death, Corrie to set up a home for damaged souls as her sister had imagined it, and to travel the world with the liberating Gospel of Jesus as she and her sister had decided they must do. Her description of life in captivity is harrowing, and yet.... There is a message of faith and hope on every page out-shining all the evil with which they were surrounded. Young people should read this firsthand account and older people too, need to be reminded of the horrors perpetrated so near to home.