Corrie ten Boom

What happens when all hope is gone? What stands when all else has fallen?

“And all else had fallen,” says Corrie ten Boom, the eighty year old author and inspirational speaker of her time with her sister at the Nazi concentration camp Ravensbruk in Germany. Corrie’s story of courage, hope, and forgiveness will forever change the way you look at your faith and life.

Corrie ten Boom was a leader in the Dutch Underground movement during World War Two. Together with her family, she saved hundreds of Jewish people from Hitler’s death camps. After the war, she traveled all over the world preaching a message of hope and forgiveness. In Berlin, she was approached by one of her former guards who asked for a handshake of forgiveness.

“I thought of the suffering of my dying sister through him. And there came a bitterness in my heart.” “God,” she said,

“I can move my hand, but you must do the rest.” Slowly she raised her hand to meet the hand of “one of the cruelest guards in the camp.”

“Brother, give me your hand,” she said, “I forgive you everything.”

 

The play was created using her book The Hiding Place (with permission), the words of her sermons, and scripture verses in English, Dutch, German, and French.

Extensive research was conducted in order to write “No Pit So Deep.” If you would like more information on Corrie ten Boom’ s life and faith, the resources listed below are recommended.

May you be blessed and inspired by her story.

Corrie ten Boom Bibliography

Corrie ten Boom with John and Elizabeth Sherrill, The Hiding Place, Guideposts Associates, 1971
Corrie ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord, 1974
Corrie ten Boom, Not Good If Detached, 1980
Corrie ten Boom, Amazing Love, 1982
Corrie ten Boom, Defeated Enemies, 1983
Corrie ten Boom, Common Sense Not Needed-Revised, 1994
Corrie ten Boom, Marching Orders for End Battle
Corrie ten Boom, Plenty for Everyone, 1980
Corrie ten Boom, In my Father's House, 1976
Corrie ten Boom, Each New Day, 1981
Corrie ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook