Corrie ten Boom, Her Story
5. Ravensbruck
THE NAZIS WERE emptying jails everywhere! Male prisoners were sent in one division, and women prisoners in another. My sister Betsie and I, herded together with thousands of other women, were marched into Ravensbruck. It was called a work camp.
When we first came into this concentration camp, they took all our possessions.
It was a real miracle that I was able to keep my Bible.
At great risk, I hid it on my back under my dress, and I prayed, "Lord, will You send Your angels to surround me?" Then I thought, But angels are spirits, and you can see through spirits. I don't want these people to see me! so I prayed then, in great fear, "Let Your angels vot be transparent. Let them cover me."
And God did it! As we passed through the inspection, the woman in front of me was searched, then my sister, directly behind me, was searched—out I walked through unsearched!
Our barracks was built for four hundred women, but they packed fourteen hundred of us inside. Bunks were stacked all the way to the ceiling, and we each had a sleeping space only a few inches wide. When they were all working, we had eight toilets for the entire barracks!
In Ravensbruck it was dangerous to use the Word of God. If you were caught teaching the Bible, you were killed in a cruel way, but the guards never knew that I had a Bible meeting twice each day in Barracks 28. The one jammed room was filthy, crawling with fleas and lice, and the guards never came inside the door. You see how the Lord used both angels and lice to keep my Bible in our possession?
Se Al