
Etty Hillesum
An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork
Etty Hillesum; With a Foreword by Eva Hoffman
Picador

BUY THE BOOK
$23.00
Picador
Picador
On Sale: 11/15/1996
ISBN: 9780805050875
416 PagesFor the first time, Etty Hillesum's diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman in the midst of World War II. 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.