Imprisonment
After the soldiers found out what Corrie and her family had been doing, they took her, her father, and her sister Betsie to a prison called Scheveningen. In Scheveningen, Corrie was put in solitary confinement. She spent most of her time reading the Bible. She missed her family very badly, and was trying to keep her sanity. For several months she stayed there. While in the prison, she found out that her father had died. This devastated her. Eventually, she and Betsie were transported to another camp called Ravensbruck. Ravensbruck was basically a camp for prisoners of war. In the camp, Betsie and Corrie were assigned to a barrack infested with fleas. They slept with many other women in a little room, practically on top of each other. They were forced to do hard manual labor, and Betsie became too sick to do it. So they were sent to do knitting in the flea infested room. It turned out, the room was so infested, that the guards would not go in. This became a perfect opportunity for Betsie and Corrie to share the Gospel. They began to share and have Bible studies, and many women turned to Christ. It turned out that God used the horrible circumstances, to accomplish great things. However, one day Betsie became very ill. She was sent to the "clinic" of the camp. The clinic was not very good, and she ended up passing away there. Before she died, she and Corrie had talked about life after the war. They made plans to care for people who were victims of the war. Corrie kept this in mind when she was sent out two weeks later. She was sent out for unknown reasons. As she left Ravensbruck, Corrie was emaciated and broken, and she began the long road to recovery.