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. So…

- Diet Eman

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 gir…

- Diet Eman

Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you than it was on me. When I was arr…

- Diet Eman

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…

- Diet Eman

I felt peace, even though I was still scared to death. I thought that, whatever would happen to me - I could still be killed. I didn't know - and in …

- Diet Eman

This pouring thoughts out on paper has relieved me. I feel better and full of confidence and resolution.

- Diet Eman

Life is like a film screen: pictures come, make an impression, go, and then make a place for new pictures with new impressions which obscure the prev…

- Diet Eman

I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.

- Diet Eman

To me it was real war and my life was at stake, and I believe that all those clandestine spy games we played as children helped when the Occupation c…

- Diet Eman