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 galla[...]
The Ethics and Religious Philosophy of Etty Hillesum contains the proceedings of the second international Etty Hillesum Congress at Ghent University in January 2014 and is a joint effort by fifteen Hillesum experts to shed new light on the life, works and vision of the Dutch Jewish writer Etty Hille[...]
Etty Hillesum died in Auschwitz; from 1941-43 she wrote diaries and letters which are among the great documents of our time.[...]
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 galla[...]
On 8 March 1941, a 27-year-old Dutch Jewish student living in enemy-occupied Amsterdam made the first entry in a diary that was to become one of the most remarkable documents to emerge from the Nazi Holocaust. Over the course of the next two and a half years, an insecure, chaotic and troubled young [...]
The diaries and letters of the Dutch-Jewish Etty Hillesum (Middelburg 1914-Auschwitz 1943) have received worldwide attention and have inspired many readers. This book offers a transparent and concise introduction to the thought and life of Etty Hillesum. It succeeds in evoking Hillesum's testimony o[...]