Corrie ten Boom's Hidden Room

During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Corrie ten Boom and her family built a secret room behind a false wall in their Haarlem home. No wider than a bookshelf, that tiny space became a refuge for Jewish families fleeing the Holocaust. Between 1942 and 1944, the ten Boom family sheltered an estimated 800 people through their underground network, knowing full well that discovery meant death.

In February 1944, the Gestapo raided their home. Four Jewish guests and two resistance workers slipped into the hiding place just moments before soldiers burst through the door. The ten Booms were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Corrie's father Caspar died ten days later at Scheveningen prison. Her sister Betsie perished at Ravensbruck.

Yet even inside those camps, Corrie discovered something the Nazis could not confiscate. She and Betsie held secret worship services by candlelight in their barracks, sharing a smuggled Bible with fellow prisoners. Betsie whispered to Corrie shortly before dying, "There is no pit so deep that God's love is not deeper still."

Corrie survived and spent the next thirty years traveling the world, testifying that the Lord had been her refuge in the darkest stronghold humanity could construct.

Nahum 1:7 declares, "The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in Him." The ten Booms built a physical hiding place for the vulnerable. But God Himself became their hiding place when no wall of brick or plaster could protect them.