Things We Couldn't Say

by Diet Eman, James Schaap

Overview

Things We Couldn't 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. Throughout the years that Diet and Hein aided the Resistance—work that would cost Diet her freedom and Hein his life—their courageous effort ultimately saved hundreds of Dutch Jews.

Now available in paperback, Things We Couldn't Say tells an unforgettable story of heroism, faith, and—above all—love.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802847478
Publisher:	Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date:	11/08/1999
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	917,499
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Included among the "Righteous Gentiles" at Yad Vashem,Israel's Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. She studiednursing after World War II and worked as a head nurse inVenezuela and as a foreign correspondent and export managerin Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she still resides.


Professor of English at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa.

Table of Contents

The Hague, 1938
The Invasion
The Occupation Begins
A Place for Hein
The Call to England
Herman
Father Abraham and Little Peter
The Apartment on Reinkenstraat, Spring 1943
Hiding at Eindhoven
Watergoor, 1944
Leeuwarden and Zwijndrecht, 1944
The Prison at Scheveningen
Barracks No. 4, Vught Concentration Camp
Darkness at Vught
The Hearing
Release from Vught
The Hunger Winter
Over the River
The End of the Occupation
Picking Up the Pieces
Postscript

Editorial Reviews

Hers is a splendidly uplifting account of heroism against the odds. Extracts from her diary and letters written at the time add to a sense of immediacy. We are caught up in her fears, hopes and dilemmas as she experienced them.

Jewish Chronicle