Ravensbrück concentration camp
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Nov 4, 2026
David JeremiahHOST
Betsy is so frail.
David JeremiahHOST
An officer appeared in the doorway and screamed at us hoarsely, do you have any objections to surrendering your clothes? We'll teach you Hollanders what Ravensbruck is all about.
David JeremiahHOST
The light shone on his cruel face.
David JeremiahHOST
For a few minutes we were quiet and spoke softly with the Savior.
David JeremiahSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I knew they would not see me, for the angels were still surrounding me.
David JeremiahSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I was not even surprised when they passed me by, but within me rose this jubilant cry, O Lord, if thou dost so answer prayer, I can face even Ravensbrück unafraid.
David JeremiahSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
End of story.
David JeremiahSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, I know if I could peer into your hearts right now, that many of you would be saying, if not out loud, at least in your heart, Did that really happen? Does God really still allow events like that in our world? Can he surround a woman with angels in such a way that she passes through a line of inspection and is not even seen? Well, if you study what the Bible says about angels, you know that that little caper is child's play for an angel assigned by God to a distressed child.
David JeremiahSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
An officer appeared in the doorway and screamed at us hoarsely.
David JeremiahSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Do you have any objections to surrendering your clothes? We'll teach you Hollanders what Ravensbruck is all about.
David JeremiahSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The light shone on his cruel face.
David JeremiahSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
For a few minutes we were quiet and spoke softly with the Savior.
Natalie LivingstoneGUEST
And after a year in Auschwitz, she was sent to Ravensbruck.
Natalie LivingstoneGUEST
And even after Ravensbrück was liberated, Marie-Claude opted to stay on for three months extra to look after those who were too sick and infirm to travel home themselves.
Natalie LivingstoneGUEST
So just in that very act alone, she is saintly.
Natalie LivingstoneGUEST
And on the 28th of January 1946, she took to the stand and said, in what I believe is one of the finest pieces of oratory in the 20th century.
JeffHOST
In 1947, she spoke at a church in Munich and afterward, a man walked up to her.
JeffHOST
He had been one of the guards at Ravensbrück who had watched her and Betsy be dehumanized and where Betsy died.
JeffHOST
As she tells the story so poignantly, he didn't remember her, but she couldn't forget him.
JeffHOST
And so he told her he'd been a guard there and that he had since become a Christian.
MitchHOST
Afterward, a man walked up to her.
MitchHOST
He had been one of the guards at Ravensbrück who had watched her and Betsy.
MitchHOST
He had watched them be dehumanized and her sister die.
MitchHOST
He didn't remember her, but he told her that he'd been a guard there and that he'd since become a Christian and that he knew God had forgiven him.
SimeonHOST
Someone betrayed them and as a result her watchmaker father was sent to a concentration camp where he died 10 days later.
SimeonHOST
Corrie and her beloved sister Betsy were incarcerated at Ravensbrook concentration camp.
SimeonHOST
They were starved, covered with fleas and made to suffer.
SimeonHOST
Betsy did not survive the horror of the camp but Corrie, gaunt, filthy and weak was released in October 1944.
SimeonHOST
She went to be with the Lord in 1983 on her 91st birthday.
SimeonHOST
She had a very spiritual sister in Betsy.
SimeonHOST
Before she died in the concentration camp in Ravensbrook, her sister Betsy said this, Corrie, your whole life has been a training for the work you are doing here in prison and for the work you will do afterward.
SimeonHOST
And Corrie used to say this, God has plans, not problems for our lives.
Marta MeyerGUEST
She went into a concentration camp at the age of 16 because she was a part of the resistance movement.
Marta MeyerGUEST
Which one? She went to Ravensbrück.
Marta MeyerGUEST
So she was a part, she was 16, she was a part of the resistance movement.
Marta MeyerGUEST
She was found out and she was taken to Ravensbrück.
Marta MeyerGUEST
And the reason why I'm telling you this story, because you can imagine really a 16-year-old child in a concentration camp, and that was after her father was already assassinated.
Marta MeyerGUEST
So there's already a lot of trauma.
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When Allied bombings intensified inside Germany, Siemens used seized factories in Poland and occupied Soviet territories to continue its production, in many cases directly inside or adjacent to concentration camps such as the machine tool plants at the Auschwitz-Bobrek subcamp.
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It's estimated that the company employed around 80,000 slave workers across all its facilities, having even established its own Siemenslager right outside the all-female concentration cramp of Ravensbrück.
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Over 2,000 women were forced to build precision switches, microphones, and wind-sensitive copper radio coils under grueling 12-hour shifts.
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This reduced cost in expansion and production led to the company's massive profits.
Angie AllportGUEST
But somebody who would be less well known was an Orthodox nun called Maria Skopsova.
Angie AllportGUEST
She was gassed in Ravensbrück because she had been housing Jewish people in France during the Holocaust.
Angie AllportGUEST
And in fact, there's some contention whether she actually went to the chamber by swapping with somebody else.
Angie AllportGUEST
But it's going back to the heroes of our faith in the past, I think.
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