Etty Hillesum was a Dutch Jewish writer whose diaries and letters document her spiritual and intellectual life during the Holocaust. Her writings were published posthumously in collections including An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork.
For the first time, Etty Hillesum's diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman. In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of life whose lucid intelligence, sympathy, and almost impossible gallantry were themselves a form of inner resistance. The adult counterpart to Anne Frank, Hillesum testifies to the possibility of awareness and compassion in the face of the most devastating challenge to one's humanity. She died at Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of twenty-nine.
Print · Henry Holt · 1996 · English ISBN 9780805048940
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Etty Hillesum was a Dutch Jewish writer whose diaries and letters document her spiritual and intellectual life during the Holocaust. Her writings were published posthumously in collections including An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork.
Connected canonical Works reviewed: An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941–1943 and Letters from Westerbork.
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