For those who don’t know, Corrie and Betsie ten Boom lived in the 1940s; they hid Jews in their home in the Netherlands during the Holocaust. They were caught and sent to a concentration camp.

And Corrie ten Boom’s story is that compelling, filled with the heroic and harrowing details of her humble Dutch watchmaking family’s efforts to help Jewish people escape the Nazis during the ...

The Watchmaker’s Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom By Larry Loftis William Morrow, 384 pages, $33. The closing pages of The Watchmaker’s Daughter feature a ...