1) The document discusses some of the darkest moments in human history including the Holocaust and provides details about Corrie Ten Boom's experience during this time. 2) It highlights two key lessons from Corrie Ten Boom's life: living for God's glory by enduring suffering and choosing forgiveness as an act of will to overcome bitterness. 3) Corrie Ten Boom worked to shine God's light during dark times and taught that true strength comes from being filled with the Holy Spirit rather than one's own power.

1. brightes
in the darkest

2. The darkest moment in
human history…….
 Holodomor (1932-1933)
 Holocaust (1941-1945)
 Apartheid in S Africa (1948-1990)
 Khmer Rouge (1975-1979)
 Rwandan genocide (1994)
 9/11 in USA (2001)

3. Trip to the Holy Land
1st Most Visited Tourist Site
Western Wall / Wailing Wall

4. Trip to the Holy Land
2nd Most Visited Tourist Site
Yad Vashem
(Holocaust Museum)
“Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future”

5. The darkest moment in
human history…….
 Holodomor (1932-1933)
 Holocaust (1941-1945)
 Apartheid in S Africa (1948-1990)
 Khmer Rouge (1975-1979)
 Rwandan genocide (1994)
 9/11 in USA (2001)

6. “The art of leadership... consists in
consolidating the attention of the
people against a single adversary and
taking care that nothing will split up
that attention.” (Vision & Mission)
“The personification of the devil as the
symbol of all evil assumes the living
shape of the Jew.” (Object of Mission)
“The very first essential for success is a
perpetually constant and regular
Adolf Hitler employment of violence.” (Strategy)
Over 6 million Jews murdered in Europe during World War II
More than 1.2 million children

7. The Hall of Names

8. The Children’s Memorial

9. “Garden of the
Righteous
Gentile”

11. The darkest moment in
human history…….
Holocaust (1941-1945)

13. Corrie Ten Boom
15 Apr 1892 – 15 Apr 1983
Haarlem, Holland

14. The Ten Boom Family
Beje
Willem
Nollie
Corrie
Betsie

15. Corrie’s Pre-War Ministry
From 1921 – 1940,
• Haarlem’s Girl’s Club
• Club for mentally-handicapped
young people

16. The 2nd World War
10 May 1940 – German (Hitler) invaded Holland
• Dutch army lost after 5 days of fighting
• Dutch newspaper stopped
• All radio sets confiscated
• Ration cards needed to
buy food
• Curfew
• Jews started disappearing

17. Dutch Underground Movement
• Work secretly against Germans (Nazis) to
help the Allies (Britain, France, Holland)
• Try to free Dutch people who are arrested
• Hide the Jews from the Gestapo & Nazis

18. Secret Codes
"We have an
old watch,
with an
unusual face.
Do you know
someone who
would like to
buy it?"

19. The triangular "Alpina" sign
(barely seen through the
curtains) was a signal that it
was safe to enter the ten Boom
house.

20. Illegal
ration cards
were hidden in
the stairwell.

21. The Hiding Place

22. The hiding place was entered through
the back of Corrie's bedroom closet.

23. During practice drills,
the illegal residents
of the house would
have to climb these
steep stairs to
Corrie's bedroom to
hide in the prepared
hiding place

24. Feb 28, 1944
(Nazi Raid)
• 30 people
arrested
• Four Jews and
two members
of the Dutch
underground
survived by
hiding in "the
hiding place.”

25. Two days after the raid, the six persons in hiding
were able to escape through this window with the
help of the Dutch Resistance.

26. Corrie & Betsie
• Scheveningen prison
(Feb 28, 1944)
• Vught Labour Camp in
southern Holland
(June, 1944)
• Ravensbruck
Concentration Camp in
Germany (Sept, 1944)

27. Ravensbruck Concentration Camp
“Cruelties so enormous as
to be incomprehensible
to the normal mind”

28. Crematorium Oven
"History knows no parallel
of such destruction
Gas Chamber of human life.”

29. Corrie’s Post-War Ministry
• Released on Dec 31, 1944
• 2nd World War ended May 1945
• Speaking in over 60 countries
• 1968 – honoured by Israel
• 1975 – “The Hiding Place”
• 1977 – settled in California
• 1978 – Stroke – unable to speak
• 1983 – Died on her 91st birthday

30. Lessons From The Life Of Corrie Ten Boom
1. Living for God’s glory
“The measure of a life, after all,
is not its duration, but its
donation.”
2. Forgiveness – an act of
the will
“God will give us the love to be
able to forgive our enemies”

31. Lesson #1 – Living for God’s glory
“Which will bring my
Father the greatest glory?
Going to be with Him
now or enduring the 5
years of suffering?”
“Staying here and
enduring 5 more years.”
“.... Then that is what I
choose.”

32. Lesson #1 – Living for God’s glory
The true story of Corrie ten
Boom’s struggle to
communicate her love for her
God during five years of
stroke-induced silence.
Pamela
Rosewell

33. Matt 5:16

34. Matt 5:16. "Let your light so shine before men
that they may see your good works and give
glory to your Father in heaven."
1. Light-shining living
2. Pursuit of good deeds
3. Not a “do-gooder” that brings no
glory to God

35. Eph 2:10. "We are God's workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus for good deeds, which
God prepared beforehand that we should
walk in them."

36. My harness is easy
and my burden
is light.

37. Lesson #2 – Forgiveness
“Forgiveness is the key that
unlocks the door of
resentment and the handcuffs
of hatred. It is a power that
breaks the chain of bitterness
and the shackles of
selfishness.”
"Forgiveness is an act of the
will, and the will can function
regardless of the temperature
of the heart."

39. 1. Forgiveness is not
• Excusing the behaviour
• Ignoring the hurt
• Denying the pain
• Justifying the wrong

40. 2. Forgiveness is
• Choosing to keep no record of
wrongs
• Refusing to punish
• Not telling what they did
• Absence of bitterness

41. 3. How do I know when I have truly
forgiven?
• No longer dwell on it day & night
• No longer talk about it all the time
• No longer feel the need to seek
revenge
• No longer live in bitterness &
anger
• Can honestly wish the person well

42. 4. Both an event and a process
When we forgive, we take our hand off the rope. But if we've
been tugging at our grievances for a long time, we mustn't be
surprised if the old angry thoughts keep coming for a while.
They're just the ding-dongs of the old bell slowing down.

43. 5. Forgiveness Reconciliation
Reconciliation requires forgiveness, but
forgiveness does not demand reconciliation.

44. brightes
in the darkest

45. The darkest moment in
human history…….
Holocaust (1941-1945)
the brightest light shines….

46. “Trying to do the Lord’s “Trying to glorify God
work in your own and forgive others in
strength is the most your own strength is
confusing, exhausting, the most confusing,
and tedious of all work. exhausting, and tedious
But when you are filled of all work. But when
with the Holy Spirit, you are filled with the
then the ministry of Holy Spirit, then the life
Jesus just flows out of of Jesus just flows out
you.” - Corrie Ten Boom of you.”