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- Etty Hillesum consistently turned down offers to go into hiding. She said that she wished to “share her people’s fate “ and inside the camp, she discovered in her search : “…myself; in this deep recess, the richest part where I gather myself, I call it God”.
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Jun 25, 2010 · Etty Hillesum consistently turned down offers to go into hiding. She said that she wished to “share her people’s fate “ and inside the camp, she discovered in her search : “…myself; in this deep recess, the richest part where I gather myself, I call it God”.
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Sep 29, 2018 · Where Anne was in hiding while she wrote most of The Diary of a Young Girl, Etty was free—or as free as most Jews could be under the avalanche of anti-Semitic regulations imposed by the Germans—until mid-1943 when she was confined at Westerbork, a concentration and transit camp in Drenthe Province in the northeast of the Netherlands that was the...
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Jan 6, 2021 · This was, however, only shortly after she had made the decision to participate in the Jewish Massenschicksal – the term she used to describe the common Jewish fate. Despite the possibility of going into hiding, Hillesum departed voluntarily to the transit camp Westerbork, earlier the same month.
There are two basic positions regarding her choice: according to the first, she shared the fate of the other victims of the Shoah (the persecution of the Jews during the Second World War) out of a sense of solidarity. This position often includes labels such as “sacred” and “martyr”.
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.
Jul 12, 2009 · Her diary describes that mysterious process of personal inner growth and liberation, a process that opened her to an optimism that revealed life as beautiful and meaningful. Paradoxically, this becomes most apparent in her entries following Germany’s first major roundup of Dutch Jews in April 1942.
Nov 28, 2019 · CHARLIE CONNELLY on the life and tragic fate of Etty Hillesum, who turned down opportunities to go into hiding before her murder at Auschwitz. On a hot day in early September 1943 a train moved slowly across the flat Dutch countryside, clanking slowly along rails that shimmered in the heat.
