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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 Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

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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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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

A fresh perspective on the way politics can come between friends and even family and how quickly it become a matter of life or death. This woman had a strong will and courage which when she went full force to help. I met this woman in 1996 when I went on a medical mission trip. After this book, she studies nursing and lived all over the world helping people. The last time I checked, she was still alive and volunteering at a medical clinic in an inner city. She is in her nineties. For her this

Undoubtedly this book would not be recommended as a vacation read, but I picked it up from my niece's bookshelf while visiting relatives this summer. As other Goodreads reviewers have mentioned, this book is both a page turner and and a critical read for understanding the horrors of the Holocaust and its impact on everyday resisters to the Nazi regime. As a Christian believer, I wanted to explore the convictions of Christian young adults who chose to involve themselves in dangerous work,

"Things We Couldn't Say" is the story of Diet Eman and Hein Sietsma (her fiancé); "ordinary" people who risked their lives time and time again to help hide Dutch Jews. This first-hand story of the Resistance showed their courage, the chances they took, the many times that God protected them. Diet walked or biked all over Holland taking false ID & food ration cards. They loved each other deeply and were separated during the war except for a "day now and then." Each were imprisoned by the



Wow. This was one of the best books I've ever read. It brought me to the reality of what it was like to live in a region that experienced Nazi take over during the time preceding and during World War 2. The stories of Eman were inspiring, to hear the reality of people who opened their hearts and home to save innocent Jewish people and to read about their experiences and the consequences they had to pay, and the amazement that they (some) made it through.

This is a beautiful Holocaust memoir written by Diet Eman, a Dutch Christian who did resistance work and also spent time in a German prison and concentration camp during World War II. She writes very candidly about her war experiences and is not afraid to share what she accomplished along with her weaknesses, failures, and struggles. Even though she wrote this account later in life, it has an immediacy and freshness that plunges you straight into the era. It is a truthful, at times brutal, and