" The Ten Boom family was only one representative of a small civilian army of European women and men who found the courage to risk their lives to follow their consciences and rescue Jewish people who were neighbors, friends--but far more often complete strangers--from being round up and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Treblenka, or any of the other camps that would become the gruesome legacy of the Nazi regime. Many of these rescuers, like Corrie and her sister Betsie, wound up in those camps themselves, and while Corrie was accidentally released from Ravensbruck, Betsie paid the ultimate price there. If European rescuers, more than half of them women, had not stepped up, there might not have been a need for the term Holocaust survivor. Nearly all of Europe’s Jewish people would have been lost, except those few who miraculously survived the camps. "

― Kathryn J. Atwood