Diet Eman died on Sept. 3 at her home in Grand Rapids, MI. She was 99. Her death was confirmed by John Evans, as family spokesman, who directed the film The Reckoning (2007), which documents her experience as a member of the Dutch resistance during WWII.

When Nazi harassment of Dutch Jews escalated in 1942 to persecution and transport to the Westerbork camp in the northeast Netherlands, she and her resistance group stole food and gas ration cards, forged identity papers, and sheltered hundreds of fugitive Jews. She delivered supplies and moral support to one apartment in The Hague that in late 1942 housed 27 Jews in hiding. Pursued by the Nazis, she was captured in 1944 and imprisoned, but was released three months later, and she immediately rejoined the resistance.

In 1982, President Ronald Reagan hailed Ms. Eman in a letter for risking her safety “to adhere to a higher law of decency and morality.” In 1998, Yad Vashem granted her the title of Righteous Among the Nations, given to non-Jews for risking their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. In 2015, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, lauded Ms. Eman as “one of our national heroes.”