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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.
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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.
Louis Hillesum was a quiet and cerebral scholar; Etty's mother Rebecca Hillesum, who had fled Russia during one of the many pogroms in the 1920s, was the polar opposite—passionate, excitable, and chaotic. It was a "tempestuous" house, Hillesum would later recall.
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Esther (Etty) Hillesum was born on 15 January 1914 in her parents' home at Molenwater 77 in the town of Middelburg, where her father Levie (Louis) Hillesum had been teaching classical languages since 1911. In Amsterdam, on 7 December 1912, he had married Etty's mother, Riva (Rebecca) Bernstein, who was also living in Middelburg at the time. Etty's ...
Etty spent her childhood years in Middelburg, Hilversum (1914–16), Tiel (1916–18), Winschoten (1918–24) and Deventer, from July 1924 on, where she entered the fifth form of the Graaf van Burenschool. The family lived at number 51 on the A. J. Duymaer van Twiststraat (at present time number 2). Later (in 1933) they moved to the Geert Grootestraat 9,...
Not much is known about Etty's university years. She moved in left-wing, anti-fascist student circles, and was politically and socially aware without belonging to a political party. Her acquaintances from this period were amazed to learn of her spiritual development during the war years, a period in which she adopted clearly different interests and...
In the diaries, one can clearly see how the anti-Jewish measures increasingly impacted Etty Hillesum's life, even though she had resolved to follow the line of her own spiritual development no matter what. When she was expecting a summons to report to Camp Westerbork, she applied – at the recommendation of her brother Jaap – for a position with the...
Before her final departure for Westerbork, Etty gave her Amsterdam diaries to Maria Tuinzing, who had meanwhile come to live in the house on the Gabriel Metsustraat as well. Etty asked her to pass them along to the writer Klaas Smelik, with the request that they be published if she did not return. In 1946 or 1947, Maria Tuinzig turned over the exer...
On 13 June 2006, the Etty Hillesum Research Centre (EHOC)was officially opened as part of Ghent University with a celebration at Sint-Pietersplein 5. This newly founded Centre coordinates and stimulates research on the Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, written during the period of World War II. In the last twenty years, these valuable manuscrip...
A monument to Hillesum is located in Deventer on the riverfront, and the local secondary school is named after her. There is also a modest museum dedicated to her memory. The Etty Hillesum Centre is housed at Roggestraat 3, Deventer, the location of a former synagogue and Jewish school. The Centre aims to pay attention to three themes: (i)(ii) Etty...
15 March 1941. "Even if there is only one decent German, they [the Germans?] would deserve to be protected from the barbarian rabble and for that one German's sake one should not pour out one's hat...30 April 1942. "Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up."17 June 1942. "If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well."13 October 1942. "One should want to be a balm on many wounds."AuschwitzHélène Berr - a French diaristHana Brady - Jewish girl and holocaust victim; subject of the children's book Hana's SuitcaseHelga Deen – wrote a diary in Herzogenbusch concentration camp (Camp Vught)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.
Esther (Etty) Hillesum was born on 15 January 1914 in her parents’ home at Molenwater 77 in Middelburg, the capital of Zeeland, where her father Levie (Louis) Hillesum had been teaching classical languages (Greek and Latin) since 1911.
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Louis Hillesum has been described as a small, quiet and unobtrusive man, a stoic, scholarly recluse with a great deal of humour and erudition. In the lower forms, he had at first experienced serious difficulties maintaining order and in response became an extremely strict teacher.
