{"author":"Diet Eman","author_id":"Diet+Eman","total_quotes":35,"quotes":[{"text":"They thought we were stupid to do it, (hide Jews) of course; in fact, it was beyond their comprehension that we would risk so much for Jews.","author":"Diet Eman","tags":["christian","dutch","holocaust","jesus-christ","righteous-gentile","wwii"],"id":26731,"author_id":"Diet+Eman"},{"text":"If you dont speak, they will know you know more than you're telling them. And if they know that, they'll find a way to get what you know out of you. Believe me, they'll get everything out, Willie. Don't have any qualms about it -- make your story good and make it believable. Silence won't work!' This was an expert giving me the best advice she could. From that point on, I worked hard not to remember the people I loved, to try instead to create another life, a false life...I tried to become a person concerned only with very simple things -- and scared. I tried to become the woman I needed to be in order to live.","author":"Diet Eman","tags":["advice","identity","survival"],"id":34811,"author_id":"Diet+Eman"},{"text":"I lay there for three whole days, totally paralyzed. My friends helped me to the bathroom and anywhere else I needed to move; but I have very vague impressions of those days because it was a time of complete darkness for me. Somebody told me later that what I had was a form of hysteria: my body and my mid fled into paralysis. There was nothing wrong with me organically, but somewhere inside I suffered a complete breakdown.","author":"Diet Eman","tags":["breakdown","darkness","hysteria","mind-power","paralysis","psychology","realism"],"id":36957,"author_id":"Diet+Eman"},{"text":"I'm sorry to say it, but it was hard on me to see life continue all around.","author":"Diet Eman","tags":["depression"],"id":45950,"author_id":"Diet+Eman"},{"text":"Again, a conversation with the doctor. We always come back to the same point: 'The church may not mix in politics.' he says. And I tell him that when you are a Christian and profess that God is almighty, there is no single area of life from which you can eliminate God. -From the diary of Diet Eman.","author":"Diet Eman","tags":["christian","god","holocaust","jesus","politics","righteous-gentile","wwii"],"id":50037,"author_id":"Diet+Eman"},{"text":"By the end of the war, I could pick out Jewish people almost as if I had a sixth sense about it, even if they had blue eyes and blond hair. I would have been a very valuable Gestapo person.","author":"Diet Eman","tags":["christian","god","holocaust","jesus-christ","righteous-gentile","wwii"],"id":54402,"author_id":"Diet+Eman"},{"text":"You should not try to live without thinking and feeling, for then you are only a piece of machinery, not a human being. Even if it hurts. Even if the thing you have to think of are sad, think them through; live them through and write or tell me. Only when we completely work through our thinking and feeling do we live a full life. ~From a letter to Diet Eman from Hein Sietsma.","author":"Diet Eman","tags":["feelings","full-life","humanity","living-life","reality","sadness","thinking"],"id":68698,"author_id":"Diet+Eman"},{"text":"Those women who had gone out with Germans were grabbed and treated very badly, often shaved totally bald so that everyone could see who they were. Some were taken prisoners. There had been so much suffering during the war because of the betrayal of those collaborators, so many killed and hurt because of what they had done to families, that the mood for revenge against the traitors was very high. It was not right, but it was understandable.","author":"Diet Eman","tags":["collaboration","judgment","revenge","traitor","understanding"],"id":109922,"author_id":"Diet+Eman"},{"text":"I had great pity on Ansje, because she always acted very happy, but I believed that it was really a front. I could see through it. Inside she was crying because she was really very sad. You pity people like that -- the ones who try to lie to themselves -- because they suffer so much and don't face reality.","author":"Diet Eman","tags":["false-belief","lying-to-ourselves","pity","reality","suffering"],"id":116539,"author_id":"Diet+Eman"},{"text":"The sound of natural things was wonderful to us. In the middle of all the suffering, it seemed pure, untouched.","author":"Diet Eman","tags":["natural","purity","wonder"],"id":123328,"author_id":"Diet+Eman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}