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Corrie ten Boom's Prison Letters

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This book is a collection of letters that Corrie and her sister Betsie wrote while imprisoned by the occupying Germans in Holland for aiding Jews. They are full of faith yet give the real grimy details of prison life. There were also scraps of paper that Corrie wrote about her surrounding and snippets of a diary that Betsie kept. The two women appreciated every blessing from God and kept their faces turned to God while others around them sunk into despair. Even though they endured constant deprivations, hunger, illness, hard labor and unfair treatment, they kept their eyes on Jesus Christ, and trusted in God's purpose and plan for their lives. It may sound trite, but not when you're in the middle of a brutal concentration camp where people get shot because the guard is having a bad day. These letters were smuggled out of the prison in Vught by a sympathetic soldier and handed to Corrie's sister Nollie who kept every scrap of paper. It was only lately in Corrie's life that she was moved to reread these letters and the painful memories. But knowing that God had a purpose for preserving these writings she decided to publish them so that others can share in the precious lessons of love and faith that sustained them through their ordeal.

Can faith survive, indeed thrive...in the brutal, dehumanizing environment of a Nazi concentration camp? Can God be gloriefied and His people blessed, even as thousands of innocent sould are being herded to their doom?

Yes, Jesus lives and He is Victor!

These words express the unshakeable Christian faith of Corrie...a faith, which enabled this remarkable woman to withstand the torture of a German death camp and to praise God for the valuable spiritual lessones she learned there...a faith which is echoed again and again in the stirring letters she wrote while in prison.