But miracles still happen, even if we don't think they do.
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To me it was real war and my life was at stake, and I believe that all those clandestine spy games we played as children helped when the Occupation came.
They thought we were stupid to do it, (hide Jews) of course; in fact, it was beyond their comprehension that we would risk so much for Jews.
After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed robbery.
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By the end of the war, I could pick out Jewish people almost as if I had a sixth sense about it, even if they had blue eyes and blond hair. I would have been a very valuable Gestapo person.
I felt peace, even though I was still scared to death. I thought that, whatever would happen to me - I could still be killed. I didn't know - and in what I'd already been through, God was in control.
I would stand there at times and remember how beautiful God created this world, and then I would be reassured that he would certainly take care of me and all of my loved ones.
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I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.
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(Thinking while being interrogated by the Germans) You big shots think you can decide on my life, but I have news for you: you can't touch a hair on my head without the will of God my Father, because He is on my side.
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All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was.
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