Being Grateful for Fleas
On February 28, 1944 Corrie ten Boom was arrested along the rest of her family for having broken the law. They had not turned in all of their bikes or radios. They had not kept curfew. They hid Jewish people. The entire family had been taken to Scheveningen prison in Holland. Each member of the family was put into his or her own cell. There was no contact between them – or even with the other prisoners. The cells were concrete with steel doors with a tiny slot in which food was inserted. Their only contact was the voice of the gruff guards. And one day the guards didn’t come. In June 1944 Corrie and her sister Betsie were taken to Vught Concentration camp in Southern Netherlands. For their uniforms, they were given paper thin dresses marked with X’s. They were exp...