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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.
Nov 21, 2020 · The author will consider the evolution of the meaning of suffering in Etty Hillesum's writings. She wants to establish the relationship between the experience of suffering and the experience of silence, as well as the progressive emergence of wisdom in Hillesum's personal experience.
It is well known that Etty Hillesum was a patient and student of the hand reader Julius Spier, and that she became his secretary and lover as well.
Aug 2, 2021 · Etty Hillesum was a Dutch Jewish woman whose published letters and diaries span the years 1941 – 1943, when she was twenty-seven to twenty-nine. Her writings wind their way from the artistic and intellectual world of Amsterdam, to Westerbork detention camp, a staging ground before her final deportation to Auschwitz.
After all, although Etty Hillesum sometimes longed for a convent cell, she committed herself to solidarity with her fellow Jews at a perilous time. However, these two women can be seen as kindred spirits in their openness to suffering, the way in which they relate to others, and their determined attention to the possibility of beauty in the ...
Etty Hillesum was a young Jewish woman living in occupied Amsterdam in the 1940s who chronicled both what was happening around her, and her own deepening spiritual life and refusal to hate or to hide.
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Passionate and unstable, Hillesum started therapy with Julius Spier, a former colleague of C.G. Jung, who helped her to recognize a presence within herself which she chose to call God. In the midst of radical evil, Hillesum still finds a meaning and purpose to God.
