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Oral history interview with Berendina Diet Eman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2003.371 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0481

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    Oral history interview with Berendina Diet Eman

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    Interview Summary
    Berendina Diet Eman, born in 1920 in Hague, Netherlands, discusses her childhood in a Protestant family; the five days the Netherlands was at war with Germany in 1940 and the German occupation of the country; her feelings about Queen Wilhelmina and the rest of the Dutch royal family; her desire to resist the German occupation and her collaboration with her boyfriend Hein to send Jews to the Dutch countryside; stealing identification cards from German offices to give to Jews in hiding; how her Christian faith sustained her during the war; the danger involved in working for the resistance; using false names and hiding in different places to avoid Gestapo questioning after 1943; the arrest and death of Hein in 1944 because of his activities in the resistance; her arrest during a train inspection because of a mistake on her false identification card; her experiences in prison and then in Vught concentration camp; her interaction with Corrie and Betsy Ten Boom; means of resistance in the camp; her release and continuing her work for the Dutch resistance while in hiding; her liberation by the Canadian Army on April 20, 1945; and her reflections on her part in the resistance.
    Interviewee
    Diet Eman
    Interviewer
    Ringelheim, Dr. Joan
    Date
    interview:  2003 November 06
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    10 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Berendina Diet Eman on November 6, 2003. The interview was received by the Archives Branch in December 2003.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:07
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