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Original Title:	Things We Couldn't Say
ISBN:	0802847471 (ISBN13: 9780802847478)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Holland(Netherlands)

Things We Couldn't Say

Diet Eman

Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

Rating: 4.3 | 1445 Users | 175 Reviews

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Title	:	Things We Couldn't Say
Author	:	Diet Eman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	November 8th 1999 by Eerdmans (first published July 1994)
Categories	:	World War II. Holocaust. History. Nonfiction. Biography. War. Autobiography. Memoir

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I decided to read a couple of first-hand accounts by women of their experiences during WW2 in different countries. Next up is the journal of Helene Berr, a young French woman. These though are the memoirs of Diet Eman, a young Dutch woman who worked for the Resistance in and around the Hague. Much of her work was hiding Jewish families. At the end of the war it was discovered every single one of the Jews she had helped survived.

This has a very chatty style, often incorporating letters and diary entries. At the beginning of the war Diet falls in love and her boyfriend too works for the resistance. Both are devout Christians. I continually marvelled at how much strain she was under and how brave she was. There’s one instance when she’s accompanying a Rabbi and his wife on a train – the Rabbi couldn’t look more Jewish, what’s more he isn’t particularly nice (though wealthy he refuses to pay a minimal sum towards the welfare of a Jewish orphan, a very young boy Diet and her group are trying to keep safe). A Gestapo check seems inevitable and yet she keeps her nerve. She risks her own life for a man who quite frankly doesn’t deserve her generosity. The same man will cause her more problems later in the war – this time he refuses to live in a house where a couple are engaged in extra-marital sex and again she has to risk her life for him by moving him. Eventually both Diet and her boyfriend Hein are arrested and the narrative begins to acquire the tension of a thriller. An incredibly brave but self-effacing woman.

Now I’m off to vote Labour!

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Ratings: 4.3 From 1445 Users | 175 Reviews

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This is such an amazing book! Diet Eman shares with the readers the story of how she and her fiance participated in the resistance by hiding Jews and performing tasks for the resistance movement. From a historical standpoint, I appreciated that she delves into how these operations worked, the danger of undertaking such work, and the toll it took on those who performed resistance work. You can really learn a lot about underground work from Eman's story. Even the details they must be aware of

Such strength! A true testament of the power one person can do in standing up for what is right. She is an amazing woman who stood face to face with evil and didn't cower despite hunger, disease, and abuse from the Nazis. Diet is a true inspiration.

I decided to read a couple of first-hand accounts by women of their experiences during WW2 in different countries. Next up is the journal of Helene Berr, a young French woman. These though are the memoirs of Diet Eman, a young Dutch woman who worked for the Resistance in and around the Hague. Much of her work was hiding Jewish families. At the end of the war it was discovered every single one of the Jews she had helped survived. This has a very chatty style, often incorporating letters and

I decided to read a couple of first-hand accounts by women of their experiences during WW2 in different countries. Next up is the journal of Helene Berr, a young French woman. These though are the memoirs of Diet Eman, a young Dutch woman who worked for the Resistance in and around the Hague. Much of her work was hiding Jewish families. At the end of the war it was discovered every single one of the Jews she had helped survived. This has a very chatty style, often incorporating letters and

Other people have compared this to The Hiding Place, but to me it's much more complete, with actual journal entries and photos of things like the ration books. Diet tells her story as though she was sitting in your living room with a cup of strong coffee, reliving her experiences and relationships. It's such that I want to write to her and thank her...my friend Denise says she's still going strong in Michigan, helping and volunteering her time. Amazing.

This book is now one of my favorite historical WWII memoirs. Written as an autobiography of her life during World War II as a member of the Christian Dutch resistance, this book is engaging and challenging to read. Diet Eman is open and honest about her struggles to keep her faith strong in God during these harsh times. During one of her stays in prison, the author briefly meets Corrie and Betsy Ten Boom.

Well, it's safe to say that I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I decided to borrow this book from my program director in Kenya. I read about half of it before I had to give it back to him so that I didn't take it across the Atlantic Ocean with me. So, I checked it out via inter-library loan in my hometown and realized how long it really had been that I knew what was going on, so I started over.Reading so deep into the life of someone who is willing to open up to you all the