Father and Mother had told their own little lies very well, and I realized immediately that the Gerrisens didn't know a thing. And yet, my realization that they didn't know what I'd been through was like a cold shower for… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
The worst fear in the hearings was that you would get some evil interrogator: you could never know what might happen then. No one who lives in a free country will ever understand that kind of fear. What is most horrifying is the realization that you have no idea what can happen, that your life is totally in the hands… — Diet Eman Copy Share
“I'm sorry to say it, but it was hard on me to see life continue all around.” — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
Darling, if I think of all I miss now, I will go crazy. I should not think of that. I only want to think of all that I still have, and then I am rich. Your spirit is always around me, in your diary, our letters, all the things you got for our household. How proud we were of that!… — Diet Eman Copy Share
“I had great pity on Ansje, because she always acted very happy, but I believed that it was really a front. I could see… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
Heavy laden -- that's what I am. Laden with pride, often thinking myself better than others while we have to think the other one… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
This pouring thoughts out on paper has relieved me. I feel better and full of confidence and resolution. — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
“O Father, console them and please spare our country from that terrible disaster, not because we are any better but only out of grace. And if it has to be different, then teach me to pray: "Your will be done." O please protect him whom my soul lives! -From the journal of Diet Eman” — Diet Eman Copy Share
By the end of the war, I could pick out Jewish people almost as if I had a sixth sense about it, even if… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
“And now, when Mother called to wake me up for the New Year, I first wanted to pray, but it turned into thanks, darling, for all that God had given us this year. For his wonderful ways with us, even if we don't understand it all now. For his love, that in all our disappointments and sorrow he himself helps… — Diet Eman Copy Share
“And here we see again that we do not decide our own lives. Dieneke, even if we won't see each other again on earth,… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
“That was one other time when my whole body reacted to the fear and went out of my own control. My nerves came apart completely, and I started vomiting and vomiting. I couldn't stop. It had been such a narrow escape. I kept telling myself that I could take all of the pressure; but there were those times that my… — Diet Eman Copy Share
I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me. — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
