Corrie ten Boom was a seemingly unremarkable watchmaker...with a secret. A hidden room, false identity papers, stolen ration cards, and a network of underground smugglers who looked to her as their leader in defying the Nazis. This is the story of how Corrie ten Boom became the ringleader of the Dutch underground resistance movement during Hitler’s occupation of Holland. 

Ultimately, this is a story of forgiveness. A woman of strong religious faith, Corrie famously gave forgiveness to one of the very guards who tortured her dying sister, Betsie. She believed she was called to show God’s love not only to the Jews of her nation, but also to the Dutch collaborators and the Nazis themselves.

Corrie created a hiding place for hundreds of Jews who would have been sent to certain death in the concentration camps. And in her own hour of need, she found a spiritual hiding place that enabled her to survive the infamous death camp of Ravensbruck, and come out the other side with an open and forgiving heart. 

Corrie’s story exemplifies courage, faith, and the power of forgiveness. She lost everything—for people she didn’t know. And then she forgave the very people who took everything from her, including her beloved father, Casper and her sister, Betsie. 

Many WWII and Holocaust stories are filled with despair. And rightly so--the evil was too great. But Corrie’s story is different. It captures the full spectrum of the cruelty of Hitler’s killing machine:  the suffocating fear, pain, the torture and death of loved ones, solitary confinement, and all that it meant to wake up morning after morning in a concentration camp in the heart of Germany. And yet the life of Corrie ten Boom poignantly displays how courage defeats fear. Kindness beats prejudice. And forgiveness has the last word over bitter hatred.

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Who was Corrie ten Boom?
-Smuggled over 800 Jews out of the clutches of the Nazis during Hitler’s occupation of Holland.

-Survived Hitler‘s concentration camps, and went on to write about her experiences and testimony in such best selling books as “The Hiding Place” and “A Faith Undefeated.”

-Known for her insightful and inspiring quotes, including “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.”

-Traveled the world, writing and speaking on such topics as prayer, forgiveness, God's love, surrender, and faith.