To learn more, read, “ Diet Eman Praised for Her Courage,” from CRC Communications, about Eman’s funeral, her experiences and her lifelong connection with the Christian Reformed Church.Įman’s notes, letters, and papers are located in Heritage Hall in Hekman Library at Calvin University. Titled Things We Couldn’t Say and written with Professor. She was honored by Israel for helping to save Jews during World War II. In a 2015 visit to Grand Rapids, Dutch King Willem-Alexander called Eman 'one of our national heroes with the highest decoration of anybody in the Dutch Resistance against the Nazis.” Diet Eman in 2007 after becoming an American citizen. Things We Couldnt Say is the true story of Diet Eman, a young Dutch woman, who, with her fiance, Hein Sietsma, risked everything to rescue imperiled Jews in Nazi-occupied Holland during World War II. She helped downed Allied pilots and provided forged ID cards and shelter for those targeted for extermination. “Looking back on those years of terror,” she wrote, “we can only say, Thank God for the precious gift of freedom.”Įman was born in the Netherlands and was part of the underground Dutch resistance after the Nazi invasion in 1940, according to an MLive article.

In 1995, she wrote an editorial for The Banner in a special 50-year-anniversary issue commemorating V-E Day. The Banner published excerpts from the book in a series of eight installments in November and December 1993, which are now available in PDF form online. Buy Things We Couldnt Say by Diet Eman, James Schaap from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on.

In 1994, Eman co-authored a book with James Schaap about her experiences titled Things We Couldn’t Say. 3, 2019, in Grand Rapids, Mich.Įman was a member of Seymour (Christian Reformed) Church in Grand Rapids, where a Celebration of Life service was scheduled for Sunday, Sept.

This first-hand story of the Resistance showed their courage, the chances they took, the many times that God protected them. Diet Eman, a Dutch resistance hero during World War II who was credited with saving hundreds of Jews, died Tuesday, Sept. 'Things We Couldn't Say' is the story of Diet Eman and Hein Sietsma (her fianc) 'ordinary' people who risked their lives time and time again to help hide Dutch Jews.

Things We Couldn't Say by Diet Eman