What sustained Corrie ten Boom while she was in prison?

Answer 1

Regular masturbation! :)

Answer 2

Both Betsie and her sister Corrie worked at home, with youth groups and in her father's shop. Her father was a 'clockmaker' and sold and repaired watches, clocks and other timepieces.

While imprisoned at Westerbork, the first camp they were taken to, the women were give factory type work knitting socks and other garments for German soldiers as part of the German 'war effort', though Westerbork was in the Netherlands.

When they moved Corrie and her sister to Ravensbruck in the heart of Germany, the conditions were even worse. Westerbork was primarily a 'work camp', a waiting camp on the way to concentration camps. Ravensbruck, housing thousands of women prisoners was hellish and served as a hard labor slave camp and killing center. Betsy died of typhoid fever, which sometimes occurred naturally and was sometimes introduced experimentally or for the purpose of mass murder by the Nazis.

In the camp, the women were given various jobs which ranged from sorting clothing and rags to other manual labor, but were eventually used for quarry work: hard labor even for young men, breaking and carrying heavy rocks and stones and carting them out of areas of the quarry. (The stones were used in building the "Fuhrer-buildings" in Germany).

When Betsy died, she had a vision she relayed to Corrie about going home to the Netherlands and opening a "Displaced Person Center": a center where people returning from the camps with no where to live could come and recover from the Horror and abuse, and make arrangements to go back to living. Corrie and a friend of hers did just exactly that: she aided persons broken from the war to 'get back to living' with a message of hope.

Corrie Ten Boom eventually came to the U.S., and sought funding to visit churches and organizations to tell her story and preach the Gospel. She spoke at Billy Graham rallies and on TV as well, preaching forgiveness and the grace of God, and that there was no place so dark that God's grace was not brighter still. In her last years, she wrote many inspirational autobiographies and stories, as well as devotionals to train Christians to trust the Lord. Her role as an evangelist world wide led to her describing herself as a "Tramp for the Lord", a vagabond going anywhere where people would listen to her story. She died quietly in her 80s, after a prolonged battle with two strokes and paralysis.

Answer 3

During her imprisonment she never lost her Christian faith. She was able to obtain a copy of the Gospels. She tried to make life better for her fellow prisoners.