Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-1943

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This body of work reveals the interior life of a brilliant young Jewish woman. Born in January 1914, Etty Hillesum started her diary in 1941, nine months after Hitler invaded her home country of the Netherlands. The record she kept for the next two years incorporates arresting personal reflections and chronicles her social, intellectual, and – most significantly – spiritual growth. Along with her ongoing search for God and truth, probably the most noted and instructive features of Etty’s development was once her recognition of, and her struggle to triumph over, the disorder within her own being. It was once her success in in spite of everything transcending her own sense of captivity within that allowed her to rise above cruel and fearsome circumstances without.
Indeed, in the course of the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust, Etty’s writings reveal a woman who celebrated life and remained an undaunted example of courage, sympathy, and compassion. Letters that she wrote to friends right through her internment at the Westerbork transit camp poignantly describe the daily horrors that the Jewish prisoners faced. Nonetheless, Etty’s courage and determination remained strong, allowing her to rise above the hate around her and express her irrepressible faith in humanity. As she wrote in her last letter, thrown from the train that took her to her death at Auschwitz, “We left the camp singing.”

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