A Christmas Story by Anita Dittman

December 11, 2007 by Ingrid Schlueter

Anita Dittman was a recent guest on Crosstalk Radio Talk Show where she told her story of how she became a Jewish convert to Christianity as a young girl in Germany. She then went through a nightmarish series of events during World War II. In this excerpt from her book, Trapped in Hitler’s Hell, Anita describes Christmas in a German Labor Camp where despite all the darkness around her, she experienced the light of Christ. Anita recently suffered a massive heart attack. Please pray for her recovery.

Posted in Christian Living, Encouragement, Faith, Persecution | Tagged christianity, Christmas, Hell, Hitler, World War II | 8 Comments

8 Responses

on December 12, 2007 at 12:48 am Donna

Praying for Anita.
on December 12, 2007 at 4:21 am Shma

I read this book & it one every Christian should read.

I know I looked at myself & wondered if I could stand so strong under those conditions. Could I thank God for the small things rather than complaining about the bad things.

It is a wonderful testimony to fully trusting the Lord!

Please let us know how she is doing & thanks for letting us know about her heart attack.
on December 12, 2007 at 4:44 pm rose

I read this post yesterday and prayed for Anita last night. What an amazing life and testimony. God’s will be done but if Anita passes, it’ll be a big loss for the Believing community.
on December 21, 2007 at 7:15 pm frank

I bought Anita’s book “Trapped in Hitler’s Hell” for my wife. I read it and it became one of my all time favorite reads. It is inspiring to the uttermost! Her faith made me feel small in comparison when I consider the things I gripe over and when I read how she endured in the worst of conditions, I really saw how much I had to grow. This book is inspiring and humbling all at once. As a believer and a pastor, I recommend it to anyone. Actually, if it were in my power, I’d put her book into the hands of every believer….that’s how good it is. God Bless Anita Dittman.
on January 18, 2008 at 4:57 pm Bernie

I bought “Trapped in Hitler’s Hell” about four days ago, and I finished it yesterday. This book is so inspiring! I just wept at the end of this book. You know today, brothers and sisters, our portion is to suffer in the name of Christ. I just saw how the Lord was so sovereign in her and in her mother’s life. Why did He let Anita stay in Germany and not Hella? Anita was to be a testimony of the sufferings of Christ. Her experience definitely “filled up on [her] part that which was lacking of the afflictions of Christ in her flesh for His Body.” Her suffering was Christ suffering in her. And when she was mistreated and laid to rot at times, they were not just doing it to her, they were doing it to Christ. We just don’t know the extent to why the Lord allows us to suffer in His name. At the end all will be told. Why did some choose not to suffer with Christ and others did? To those who did not, that will be to their shame. This book showed me how to suffer with Christ, and if you get a chance to see “The Hiding Place” video, I recommend that too. We are living in a time where we don’t know what our future will be. Since we are at the doorsteps of the Lord’s soon return I can only surmise that our portion will be . . . suffering? I think the Lord is preparing me for that. So whether we are caught up in a war, or our nation is in a depression, or we are persecuted because we are Christians, I want to be such a person just like Anita and so many of our forefathers who stood in the name of Christ no matter what evil came their way.
on January 18, 2008 at 4:59 pm Bernie

O I forgot, can the owners of this website please update us about our sister’s heart condition? Is she okay now? We stand with our sister in prayer. We love you Anita.
on May 7, 2008 at 11:39 pm Danielle

i read her book it was good i want to tell her that i will be praying for and to remember she is in the shadow of His hands.
on June 9, 2008 at 5:11 pm Sally M

I read this book and was so taken back by what this little girl, turned woman, went through. God’s goodness and grace never cease to amaze me!

I praise God that her health has returned and she is again up and on her feet serving Him.

Sally