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She died in 2019 but hers story of faith, hope, courage and love lives on.

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Even if we won’t see each other on earth again, we will never be sorry for what we did, and that we took this stand.

He signed off with the Latin phrase that was engraved on the gold engagement ring that he had given her: “Omnia vincit amor.”Love conquers all.

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By some miracle, a letter he had written on a single sheet of toilet paper and tossed from a train as he was being transported to the camp found its way to her.

“Darling, don’t count on seeing each other again soon,” he wrote, she said.

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She was in constant fear of recognizing her fiancé’s uniform, she recalled.

She learned in June 1945 that Hein Sietsma had been captured a month before she was and tortured to death at Dachau in Germany, barely four months before it was liberated.

14/18 “There I sat on the top of one of those tanks. It was my own private triumph: I felt at that moment as if I’d actually won the war”

At Vught she had been assigned to wash the bloody uniforms of Dutch prisoners who had been executed, shot in the stomach to ensure a more excruciating death.

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She immediately rejoined the Resistance and remained with it until May 1945, when she mounted a tank and directed Canadian liberators to die-hard German snipers only days before Germany surrendered.

“Just like that, the Germans threw up their hands,” she recalled.

12/18
Ms. Eman was interned in the Vught concentration camp in the southern Netherlands, but after stubbornly insisting that she was simply a callow housemaid, she was released three months later, in August 1944.

11/18
In May 1944, while carrying false identity papers on a train,she was stopped, arrested & imprisoned. Before her arrest, she manage to ditch an envelope filled with even more incriminating evidence that she had hidden under her blouse.

10/18
Ms. Eman remained a fugitive for months. She and Mr. Seitsma decided to marry and even set a wedding date, but then delayed it until after the war.

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Finally the Gestapo raided the apartment. A diary that contained her code name was discovered. She stopped in to see her boss at the bank.

“I stuck my head in his door,” she recalled, “and all I said was, ‘I have to go. See you after the war.’”

8/18
“You’re living on top of a volcano that’s ready to erupt,’ I told her,” Ms. Eman wrote of the woman.

Each time some of the Jews there were smuggled out to isolated farms outside the city, Ms. Eman returned to find that the woman had taken in more refugees.

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Ms. Eman delivered supplies and moral support to one apartment in The Hague that in late 1942 housed 27 Jews in hiding. The walls were paper thin. Crying babies and even toilet flushing risked raising the suspicions of neighbors, who knew only that a woman had been living there alone.

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A plea for help from Jewish co-worker prompted her Resistance group to focus on stealing food and gas ration cards, forging identity papers and sheltering hundreds of fugitive Jews.

She said of the German occupiers, “It was beyond their comprehension that we would risk so much for the Jews.”

5/18
By 1942 Dutch boys”men were being conscripted to fill factory jobs in Germany and the harassment of Dutch Jews escalated to outright persecution and transport to the Westerbork camp in the northeast Netherlands from which they were deported to death camps in Germany and German-occupied Poland

4/18
She and her boyfriend, Hein Seitsma, joined a Resistance group (coincidentally called HEIN, an acronym translated as “Help each other in need”). They began by spreading news received on clandestine radios from the British Broadcasting Corporation, then smuggling downed Allied pilots to England.

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Some of her neighbors, fellow churchgoers, argued that God in his wisdom must have willed the German invasion. But Ms. Eman — herself so deeply religious that she would leave assassinations, sabotage and, for the most part, even lying to others — could find no justification for such evil.

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Ms. Eman, at 20, was was working Twentsche Bank in The Hague when, in May 1940, the Germans, hours after Hitler had vowed to respect Dutch neutrality, invaded the Netherlands. Her sister’s fiancé was killed on the first of five days of fighting. A brother died later in a Japanese prison camp.

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On the Liberation on the Netherlands Day remembering and celebrating the life of Dutch resistance fighter Diet Eman who saved many lives in the Second World War . She hid Jewish people from the Nazis and bluffed her own way out of a concentration camp

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She was eventually arrested, tortured and murdered by Dutch fascists. After Liberation Schaft was buried in a state funeral.

The novel “To Die Beautiful” by Buzzy Jack­son is based on the true sto­ry of Han­nie Schaft.

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Known in the movement as "the girl with red hair", the Nazis found out her identity, and sent her parents to a concentration camp. She was not Jew­ish, but she risked her life to defend and pro­tect Dutch Jews, two in par­tic­u­lar – her best friends Phi­line Polak and Son­ja Frenk

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Han­nie joined the Dutch Resis­tance, leav­ing behind a qui­et life of study­ing law. Under Nazi occupation, she began stealing ID cards for Jewish residents. She then began armed actions: sabotaging and assassinating various targets including Germans and Dutch collaborators.

On Dutch Liberation Day remembering and celebrating the life of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft.
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I’m old enough to remember when we had 3 branches of government. Forget checks and balances. I guess we are a Muskocracy now.

If it feels like Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to destroy our country from within, that’s because it is exactly what they are fucking doing.

High crimes and misdemeanors redux Less than two weeks into his new administration, and Mr. Trump is not testing the limits of presidential powers, he is abusing them.

If Congress had a constitutional spine, Donald Trump would face strong charges of impeachable abuses of power. As matters stand today, that check on executive power has been temporarily rendered impotent.
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