URI(s)
Fuller Name
- Berendina Roelfina Hendrika
Variants
- Eman, Berendina Diet, 1920-2019
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1920-04-30
Death Date
- 2019-09-03
Birth Place
- Hague (Netherlands)
Associated Locale
- Grand Rapids (Mich.)
Associated Language
- Dutch
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: Her Things we couldn't say, c1994:CIP t.p. (Diet Eman) data sheet (Berendina Diet Eman; b. 04-30-20)
- found: 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)
Instance Of
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Change Notes
- 1994-04-25: new
- 2021-04-27: revised
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