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
There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming, sitting on the deel beside… — 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… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
“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… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
“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.… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
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,… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
“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… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
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
