Ravensbrück Camp, Corrie Ten Boom

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"You mentioned Ravensbrück in your talk," he was saying. "I was a guard in there." No, he did not remember me. "I had to do it — I knew that. The message that God forgives has a prior condition: that we forgive those who have injured us." "But since that time," he went on, "I have become a Christian. I know that God has forgiven me for the cruel things I did there, but I would like to hear it from your lips as well. Fraulein, ..." his hand came out, ... "will you forgive me?" And I stood there —

Ravensbrück, located 70 km north of Berlin, was Germany's largest women's concentration camp. From 1939 to 1945, approximately 132,000 women from 47 countries were imprisoned there due to their race, religion, ideology or their social behavior. More than half were executed or died from malnutrition, sickness, exhaustion from very heavy labor or from the after effects of medical experiments.

Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler inspects the women's concentration camp Ravensbrueck. (1941) - http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blravensbruck7.htm

Mugshot of Elsbeth Zedner, social worker, arrested when caught distributing anti-German leaflets. Arrived in Ravensbrueck November 1941. (November 1941) - http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blravensbruck8.htm

Forced labor at the Ravensbrueck concentration camp. (1940 - 1942) - http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blravensbruck1.htm

Straw-shoeplaiting workshop in Ravensbrueck concentration camp - http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blravensbruck2.htm

Women prisoners at work in the spinning workshop. (1940 - 1942) - http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blravensbruck3.htm

Female prisoners at forced labor in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. (1940 - 1942) - http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blravensbruck6.htm

Women prisoners at work in the shoe repair workshop of the Ravensbrueck concentration camp. (1940 - 1942) - http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blravensbruck4.htm

Women at forced labor in the Ravensbrueck concentration camp digging and pushing a hopper car along a track. (January 1, 1940 - January 1, 1942) - http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blravensbruck5.htm

Group of women prisoners march to forced labor. In the background: view of the camp. (1943 - 1944) - http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blplaszow11.htm

The experiments conducted on Polish political prisoners - http://individual.utoronto.ca/jarekg/Ravensbruck/Experiments.html

The Auschwitz Album
The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process of mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a unique document and was donated to Yad Vashem by Lilly Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier.
http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/album_Auschwitz/mutimedia/index.HTML

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[Dotkmh08]

Corrie's fathers answer to her when she was a child and didn't think she could suffer for Christ - is beautifully wise & answers my question to Christ as well - the movie 'The Hiding Place' shows just how horrendous the suffering in the Concentration Camps were...

[yankeegurl62]

my favorite quote from her book was about when she was a child, she was scared of death, and her father, lovingly said to her" corrie, when do I give you your ticked for the train" corrie thought for a moment, and said, "why, Pappa, just before we board the train," Her father said, with deep profound truth, "that is how it is with our Heavenly Father, when it is time to die, He will give you the courage you need." She is my Hero of the Faith...God bless

[cd72]

No Betsie was 59 when she was at Ravensbruck and died there Dec 16, 1944...

[cutey1231000]

the holocaust makes me cry bc im of jewish herritage and my grandmother was a surviver of the holocaust. :*(

[terezadotter]

@silentfades yes true

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@meeakit

First of all I am sorry the actions of your mother may have affected your heart and trust me I do understand however - it is not up to us to wish somone to burn in hell but rather to pray for their conversion and G*ds love affect/infect thier soul and that of thier families - pray for them as the Master did on the cross for they know not what they do - Listen to Corries words and invite Jesus into all corners of your heart

Shalom

[meeakit]

I believe my mom a nazi. She was ww2 communications person but I think more. They trained women to be guards for women and also some mored to other camps. May they all who ran concentration camps BURN IN HELL!

[EDDBRANCH]

anything on nazist female guards in concentration camps? Their roles? The cruelest of them?

[Chutson353]

@pianohbc yes their testimony of the Lord's strength is what the gospel is truly about - God's righteousness in us.

[yankeegurl62]

I wrote this before I found out just how amazing God really is. Like Corrie said, "there is no pit so deep that God's love is not DEEPER STILL." He was with me and my daughter in the depths of Hell, when she was diag. 9/09 with a brain tumor at the age of 11 yrs. No matter what lies ahead...God is with us...and HE gives us courage to face that which we can not face under any other circumstances...God is GREAT!! Corrie is still my Hero of the faith! Her strength is amazing!! So is Betsy's!

[pianohbc]

For a deep account of the camps and death squads re Martin Gilberts book The Holocaust- it will shock you- this film was mild and made in the 80s