Things We Couldn't Say by Diet Eman6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() This action spiraled into relocating 60 people in safe houses in cities as well as rural areas. Eman soon worked to find a place to hide for a friend being threatened with "relocation," meaning movement to a concentration camp. These efforts grew, however, as the Nazi regime began enacting antisemitic laws. Initially, Eman's resistance group listened to forbidden BBC war news broadcasts and spread the information to as many people as possible. Immediately, Eman began her work against the Nazi regime: she and her fiancé, Hein Sietsma, established a resistance group with friends. Her brother-in-law, in fact, was killed the first day. Her wartime experience began on May 10, 1940, when she awoke in the night to the sound of aircraft battle she knew immediately that this meant Hitler's forces had invaded the Netherlands despite promises otherwise. ![]() War experience Įman grew up in a middle-class, business-owning, Christian family in The Hague. Berendina Roeloffina Hendrika (Diet) Eman (Ap– September 3, 2019) was a Dutch resistance worker during World War II and author of the book Things We Couldn't Say. ![]()
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