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Esther (Etty) Hillesum (15 January 1914 – 30 November 1943) was a Dutch Jewish author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the German occupation. In 1943, she was deported and murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Etty Hillesum’s diary, which she kept between 1941 and 1943, is the only extant source about her. Hillesum’s diary reflects a mature, nonconformist Dutch woman attempting to grapple with the changing landscape of her internal world.
Many Jews have read The Diary of Anne Frank, but much fewer have heard of the extraordinarily gifted Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jew who also wrote diaries during the Holocaust and perished in Auschwitz. Etty Hillesum’s diaries and letters were first published in English in 1983.
Nov 21, 2020 · 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 ...
Etty Hillesum was a 27-year-old Jewish woman living in Amsterdam when she wrote these journals - they cover the years 1941 and 1942. The letters are written from the Westerbork transport camp in 1943.
Etty Hillesum 1914-1943. 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.
Meeting Etty Hillesum through her diary and letters is like seeing a spark of light at the bottom of an abyss. Her achievement was to conquer and maintain a balance between “inside” and “outside.”. She was able to find the “centre” of the self, that point that allows one to fill every moment of life with meaning.
Feb 27, 2014 · The centenary of the birth of Etty Hillesum on 15 January gives us an opportunity to look again at the work of a remarkable woman. Not only does she rank with Primo Levi and Anne Frank as a chronicler of the Holocaust but her writings take us beyond her own times and raise issues of knowledge, gender and sexuality that remain ...
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.
In this introductory contribution, the author presents an overview of what is currently known about Etty Hillesum's life, study, family, and friends. Keywords: biography, Julius Spier, Camp Westerbork, literary legacy, Etty Hillesum, Hillesum family, diaries and letters.
