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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 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.

A must read for any human being! I was profoundly affected by her story. All she lived through and lost. Her faith in Jesus in a hopeless time. She was just a young girl trying to help her fellow man...A most noble young woman.

This book was a page turner, it kept me engrossed from the first page. This is one of those historical books where you almost know what to expect, if you know the history that surrounds the personal story being told. This brave woman Diet Eman, (pronounced deet) who was a Dutch Jew in Holland, started a resistance group with her fiance and others. They hid Jews and got them fake papers, and got involved with a more organized group, and then her fiance got pick up with supplies that included

I have always been drawn to the conflict of WWII - perhaps out of a desire to understand humany behavior. How could someone be so evil (Hitler), how could people follow so blindly, how was it for those who opposed the regime and risked everything to help the persecuted. Reading this book made me feel like I was there - with every decision and every risk. I would like to hope I would have as much courage under similar conditions. But I'd also like to never have the opportunity to find out!



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,

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