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Around the Oval Table by Corrie ten Boom

By Corrie Ten Boom Can a piece of furniture be important? The oval table in our dining room was the gathering place for hopes and dreams, the listening place for prayers and petitions, and the loving place for joy and laughter….

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Remembering the Holocaust

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Sadly, many people don’t even think about it, and sadder still, many children in public schools are not being taught about it (and in some instances, they are being taught that the Holocaust was exaggerated…

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Study Shows Americans Are Forgetting About the Holocaust

LTRJ Note: During this week, Holocaust Remembrance week, we sadly learned about a study conducted showing that Americans are increasingly becoming more and more ignorant of the reality of the Holocaust, especially among the younger generations. As the article below…

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Around the Oval Table by Corrie ten Boom

By Corrie Ten Boom Around the Oval Table by Corrie ten Boom Can a piece of furniture be important? The oval table in our dining room was the gathering place for hopes and dreams, the listening place for prayers and…

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Remembering the Holocaust: Christians Who Saved Jews Honored

By David Lazarus Israel Today The Chief Rabbi of Poland honored 50 elderly Christians who saved Jews from the Nazis during World War II. Calling them “heroes” at the event held in what was the infamous Warsaw Ghetto, the Rabbi…

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Corrie Ten Boom’s Father – In and Out of the Watchmaker’s Shop

By Corrie ten Boom Five . . . six . . . seven . . . eight . . . the chiming clocks in the shop told me it was eight o’clock in the morning. What a wonderful way to…

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Around the Oval Table by Corrie ten Boom

By Corrie Ten Boom (From her book, In My Father’s House) (Corrie ten Boom and her family hid Jews in Holland during the Nazi occupation. Eventually, they were captured and put into concentration camps where most of her family perished….

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NEW BOOKLET: Christians in Holland in 1941: “Should We Help Save the Jews?” (Obey God or Man)

Christians in Holland in 1941: “Should We Help Save the Jews?” (Obey God or Man) written by Diet Eman is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklet. The Booklet is 14 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are as…

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Holland -1941: Should We Help Save the Jews?

LTRP Note: The following is an excerpt from Diet Eman’s book, Things We Couldn’t Say. Diet was part of the Christian resistance movement in Holland during World War II. Her group was responsible for hiding and saving Jewish people from…

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Another Freedom-Honoring Story – It Happened Then, It Could Happen Now

LTRP Note: With each passing year, there remain fewer and fewer witnesses still alive who lived through the Holocaust and can testify of what happened. Lighthouse Trails is honored and privileged to be the publisher for two of these witnesses,…

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He Took My Hand by Corrie ten Boom

By Corrie ten Boom War. It was early in the morning when we heard the bombs. We knew the sound of the explosions were coming from Schiphol, the airport near Haarlem. I ran to Betsie’s room and found her sitting…

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