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  1. 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.

  2. One of Etty’s former classmates remembers being at the Hillesum house when Mischa, no older than four, directly inquired if he could play her something. For the development of the musical talent of his son, Louis Hillesum thought it would be best if Mischa went to Amsterdam.

  3. Explicit in both its expression of sexuality and profession of faith, Hillesum’s diary reflects a mature, nonconformist Dutch woman attempting to grapple with the changing landscape of her internal and external worlds.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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. Patrick Woodhouse introduces her story, her thinking, what we might learn from it today, and reads from her writings.

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  8. Jun 25, 2010 · Etty Hillesum’s Diaries and Letters. “To think one can have enough love in oneself to pardon God!”. A strange sentence and even stranger coming from someone in a Dutch prison camp for Jews awaiting deportation to the gas chambers of Auschwitz in 1943.

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