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Summary: Things she did say
Review: Diet Eman's book won me over more than any book I've read in the past few years. At only 23, she helped organize a Dutch resistance movement that hid hundreds of Jews and supplied them with fake ration cards throughout World War II. She suffered incredibly to see justice done, even being thrown into a concentration camp for a year. Yet through her tragedies, through the death of her fiance, and the suffering she experienced knowing that her friends were being tortured and killed, her faith in God rarely wavered. Her miraculous answers to prayer are inspiring and moving. She says she was reluctant to write the book because she didn't want to bring up the memories of the horror she lived through in war-torn Holland. I am so glad that James Schaap offered to organize her story into this book. It has strengthened my own faith in God enormously.
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Summary: Things We Couldn't Say by Diet Eman
Review: Focus on the Family radio station featured Diet Eman April 2001, during one of my drives to work. I heard a portion of the most gripping account of how Diet was arrested (with undiscovered stolen ration cards for hidden Jews and false ID cards for downed allied piolots). There she sat in a train station surrounded by six German soldiers, praying very hard for the grace of God to help her to get rid of those papers hidden in her bra, a sure death sentence. To distract one guard, or perhaps two, would be possible, but how would all six be distracted at the same time so that she could get rid of that envelope? I couldn't tune in to the radio the following day. I was left with the most exciting alternative, to read the book. Diet's story will dwarf anyone's troubles and serves to inspire how faith and reliance on God can manage the seemingly impossible while sculpting one's heart with a strong dose of humility.
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Summary: Things We Couldn't Say by Diet Eman
Review: Focus on the Family radio station featured Diet Eman April 2001, during one of my drives to work. I heard a portion of the most gripping account of how Diet was arrested (with undiscovered stolen ration cards for hidden Jews and false ID cards for downed allied piolots). There she sat in a train station surrounded by six German soldiers, praying very hard for the grace of God to help her to get rid of those papers hidden in her bra, a sure death sentence. To distract one guard, or perhaps two, would be possible, but how would all six be distracted at the same time so that she could get rid of that envelope? I couldn't tune in to the radio the following day. I was left with the most exciting alternative, to read the book. Diet's story will dwarf anyone's troubles and serves to inspire how faith and reliance on God can manage the seemingly impossible while sculpting one's heart with a strong dose of humility.
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Summary: John 15:13
Review: I cannot emphasize, underline, or highlight ENOUGH how much you need to read this must-read of must-reads! This is the best story I've ever read and, hence, the best book I've encountered in my 22 years. To grasp true commitment to Christ and, therefore, to mankind is to read Hein and Diet's sacrificial walk of love. I would daresay that, granted the wish to meet one deceased person, Hein might very well be the one. "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." (Jn 15:13). Hein and Diet captured this verse's message and fearlessly followed...inspiration epitomized.
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Summary: MOVING STORY!
Review: I loved this book, it is so inspiring and really makes you count your blessings, that we aren't at war now, and for some of us have never had to live through a war! We can thank and praise God that He has been faithful, and also was faithful to Diet Eman and many others, He never left them. I recommend this book true story) to anyone.
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Summary: I had the chance to meet her personally.
Review: I was a missionary in Honduras in 1988, helping Doctors translate in Spanish. We were some 60 miles north of the capital city, sitting around a fire. Diet's story lasted about 2.5 hours long for us. We were engrossed with her story. Afterwards, I pulled her aside and told her that she needed to write this down before she was physically unable to do so. She started to give me excuses why this couldn't happen from not being a good writer to other writers (ghost writers) not conveying her sentiment. I Praise God that she finally took the time to get her story down! Thank you DIET!
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Summary: Good Read
Review: If you liked "The Hiding Place" you will also enjoy this book. The book has elements that "The Hiding Place" does not, such as the love story between the author and her fiance. If you like accounts of WW2, or if you want a moving story, this is the book for you.
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Summary: Finding G-d When We've Lost Everything Else
Review: This book is an inspiration and I belive that Deit is one of the great role models we should have our kids look up to. I am an Orthodox Jew living in Israel. We are all G-d's children (we all stem from Noah)and Deit's love for mankind and her faith in G-d is an inspiration to anyone who reads her story. Sometimes we have to lose almost everything before we can make room for G-d. I just hope mankind never has to come to this point again, and that we find G-d and G-d's love and goodness through appreciation for the things we already have been blessed with - and not through pain and suffering. I am the daughter of a holocaust survivor from Poland and yet today we are fighting another evil. I pray that Westerners don't get too soft in their cushy and easy lives to fight the evil we face today through terrorism. Although life can be a challenge for anyone, whether they enjoy a relatively easy life or not, we need to find the strength of heroes like Deit, and not tolerate the hatred and intolerance coming out of the east. We need to realize just how easy, and how good we really have it today, yet have that strength within us to eradicate the terrorism we and others face today. This book makes one count their blessings. Thank you Deit and all others like you, Jews and Gentiles who had the stamina, bravery, and blessing to see to the defeat of the evil Nazi empire. May we see the defeat of the terrorists around the world today.
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Summary: Making the Right Choices
Review: This is the most encouraging book I have ever read about the holocaust. It beckons the reader to stand up and do the right thing in the midst of an overpowering adversary. It is Diet Eman's story of love, adventure, and courage. It is a book written with a disarming openness that is founded in her faith in God. After reading this book, you can't help but admire and love this wonderful Christian woman and her fiance', Hein Sietsma. Hein Sietsma died in Dachau on January 20, 1945.
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Summary: Making the Right Choices
Review: This is the most encouraging book I have ever read about the holocaust. It beckons the reader to stand up and do the right thing in the midst of an overpowering adversary. It is Diet Eman's story of love, adventure, and courage. It is a book written with a disarming openness that is founded in her faith in God. After reading this book, you can't help but admire and love this wonderful Christian woman and her fiance', Hein Sietsma. Hein Sietsma died in Dachau on January 20, 1945.
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