Search results
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.
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 · 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.
Hillesum was murdered at Auschwitz in December 1943. Contents. 1. Early Life & Family. 2. Part One: Hillesum’s Internal World. 3. Part Two: The Reality of the Yellow Star. 4. The Diary’s Explicit Sexuality. 5. Part Three: A Long Prayer to God. 6 Bibliography.
Louis Hillesum 1880-1943. Levie (Louis) Hillesum was born on 25th May 25th1880 in Amsterdam. He was the youngest of four children. His father, Jacob Samuel Hillesum, was a merchant and husband to Esther Hillesum-Loeza, after whom Etty was named. Louis Hillesum dreamed of becoming a violin player.
Nov 30, 2023 · November 30, 2023, marks the 80th anniversary of the death of Etty Hillesum in the Auschwitz concentration camp. A young Jewish woman from Amsterdam, Hillesum possessed a fierce but highly...
People also ask
Where can I buy Etty Hillesum?
What happened to the Hillesum family?
Who is Etty Hillesum?
What did Etty Hillesum experience?
When did Mischa Hillesum die?
Why is Hillesum's diary explicit?
Nov 15, 1996 · Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork. Paperback – November 15, 1996. 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.
- Etty Hillesum
