Read this in my childhood. Ten Boom was a Dutch Reformed Christian in Haarlem Netherlands who hid Jews and resistance workers in her house, was denounced with her father, sister, and brother, sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany, which she survived. Her sister and father did not. The descriptions of the camp alone are chilling. But her faith in God is so intense, it almost seems bizarre. It reminds me of Sara Miles from Take This Bread, who, albeit in entirely different circumstances, seems to have hooked into the total radicality and weirdness of the Gospel. It makes me feel a little wistful, to be honest.
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