Things We Couldn't Say

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Summary: Beautiful and touching story
Review: A wonderful, true story that you will never forget. A definite must read!!

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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: Every high school student in America should read this book
Review: Diet's story is not one just of the events during the Second World War, but a timeless story of the power of good over evil. She brings hope to the hearts of us all through her enormous capacity to love her fellow man enough to sacrifice every relationship she held dear. If you have an ounce of compassion you can not help but be touched by Diet's book. You will ask yourself over and over again, "Could I have done what she did? Lost what she lost and still held on to hope?" I recommend this book to everyone I know!

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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: Excellant Book - well worth reading !!!
Review: For the reader in Israel who wanted to contact the author - Diet Eman - How can one give you the contact information if you don't leave any way to contact you ???

I would guess that if she is still alive she can be contacted through her publisher:

Wm. B. Eerdman's 231 Jefferson Avenue SE Grand Rapids MI 49503-4569 USA [phone]

or if you know (or can find out - it might be in her book) the city in which she lives - look in the phone book!!!

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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: 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!