Eman, Diet, 1920-2019

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Eman, Diet, 1920-2019
Other forms of name
Eman, Berendina Diet, 1920-2019
Eman, Diet, 1920-
Eman, Berendina Diet, 1920-
Date of birth
1920-04-30
Date of death
2019-09-03
Other designation
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
Field of activity
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Rescue
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements
Associated Language
duteng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 5833629
Wikidata: Q30325688
Library of congress: n 94040344
Hasid_ID: 4014752
Sources of Information
  • New York times, 12 Sept. 2019:(Diet Eman; born Berendina Roelfina Hendrika Eman Apr. 30, 1920 in The Hague, died Sept. 3 [2019] in Grand Rapids, Mich., aged 99; risked her life to rescue Dutch Jews; it was not until 1978, after she heard a fellow Dutch Resistance fighter, Corrie ten Boom speak in her Michigan hometown, that she began to think that she had an obligation to reveal her story about saving Jews, ferrying Allied pilots to safety, and escaping the Gestapo; in 1998, Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel, granted her the title of Righteous Among the Nations)
  • Her Things we couldn't say, c1994:CIP t.p. (Diet Eman) data sheet (Berendina Diet Eman; b. 04-30-20)