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Nov 15, 1996 · by Etty Hillesum (Author), Eva Hoffman (Foreword) 4.5 437 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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 midst of World War II.
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Nov 19, 2020 · by Randall S. Rosenberg November 19, 2020. As a Doctor of the Church, St. Thérèse of Lisieux is surely the privileged expression of the Little Way for our times. Yet, there is another Little Way, that of the twentieth century Dutch Jew and Holocaust victim, Etty Hillesum. In the final Ash Wednesday address of his pontificate, Pope Benedict ...
Etty Hillesum was an eyewitness to the rupture of society and the collapse of all that seemed consolidated in the Western world, and especially in Europe. Hillesum wrote of physical pain in her body, of the pain of impotence when observing the pain of others, and she wrote of the exponential growth of suffering amid the meaninglessness of war.
Nov 30, 2023 · Prior to her death in Auschwitiz, Etty Hillesum found God in the midst of terrible suffering. Now a composer has turned her words into a stirring theatrical experience. Etty Hillesum still...
Apr 4, 2019 · By Emma Garman. April 4, 2019. Feminize Your Canon. Our monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors. Etty Hillesum (Photo courtesy of the Etty Hillesum Research Centre, Middelburg, the Netherlands) In 1942, the year before she died in Auschwitz at age twenty-nine, the Dutch diarist and mystic ...
Support JVL. Donate. HILLESUM, ETTY (1914–1943), writer, religious thinker, and victim of Nazi genocide. Hillesum was born in Middleburg, Netherlands, the eldest of three children of Louis Hillesum, a teacher of classical languages, and Rebecca (Bernstein) Hillesum. Her Russian-born mother suffered from psychological disorders, as did her two ...
Esther (Etty) Hillesum was born on 15th January 1914 in her parental home at Molenwater 77 in Middelburg. When Etty was two, her brother Jacob (Jaap) was born on 27th January 1916. Four years later, with the birth of Michael (Mischa) on 22nd September 1920, the family was complete. The three children, Etty, Jaap and Mischa were raised in a ...
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