Etty Hillesum Books

Verslag van het begin van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, zoals de schrijfster dat onderging en verwerkte.

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. In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of life whose lucid intelligence, sympathy, and almost impossible gallantry were themselves a form of inner resistance. The adult counterpart to Anne Frank, Hillesum testifies to the possibility of awareness and compassion in the face of the most devastating challenge to one's humanity. She died at Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of twenty-nine.

The remarkable last letters of Etty Hillesum--unsurpassed in Holocaust literature (New York Times Book Review)--a companion to and completion of her diary An Interrupted Life, which caused a sensation here and abroad.

Etty Hillesum (1914-43) lived in Amsterdam, like Anne Frank, and like her she kept a diary. 'All the writings she left behind,' writes Eva Hoffman in her Preface to this edition of her diaries and letters, 'were composed in the shadow of the Holocaust, but they resist being read primarily in its dark light. Rather, their abiding interest lies in the light- filled mind that pervades them and in the astonishing internal journey they chart. Etty's pilgrimage grew out of the intimate experience of an intellectual young woman - it was idiosyncratic, individual, and recognisably modern... The private person who revealed herself in her diary was impassioned, erotically volatile, restless... Yet she had the kind of genius for introspection that converts symptoms into significance and joins self-examination to philosophical investigation... In the last stages of her amazing and moving journey, Etty seemed to attain that peace which passeth understanding... Finally, however, the violence and brutality she saw all around her overwhelmed even her capacity to understand... But by knowing and feeling so deeply and fully, an unknown young woman became one of the most exceptional and truest witnesses of the devastation through which she lived.'

Etty hillesum fue una mujer judia que murio en el campo de concentracion de auschwitz. Antes de eso, habia elegido voluntariamente la deportacion cuando las tropas alemanas entraron en holanda. En el campo de westerbork, que seria antesala de la muerte para muchos judios holandeses, etty hillesum trabajo como manera de solidarizarse con la suerte de los suyos. Esta publicacion recoge sus cartas dirigidas a amigos y familiares, algunas desde amsterdam pero la mayoria desde el campo de westerbork, durante los años 1941 a 1943.

Brieven en dagboekfragmenten van de jonge joodse schrijfster (1914-1943), voorzien van toelichtingen van biografische, historische en literaire aard.

"De 1941 à 1943, à Amsterdam, une jeune femme juive de vingt-sept ans tient un journal. Le résultat : un document extraordinaire, tant par la qualité littéraire que par la foi qui en émane. Une foi indéfectible en l'homme alors qu'il accomplit ses plus noirs méfaits. Partie le 7 septembre 1943 du camp de transit de Westerbork, d'où elle envoie d'admirables lettres à ses amis, Etty Hillesum meurt à Auschwitz le 30 novembre de la même année. Le journal d'Etty Hillesum, née en Zélande en 1914, connaît un succès foudroyant aux Pays-Bas lors de sa publication en 1981. Et reste encore aujourd'hui, un témoignage incontournable."--Quatrième de couverture

Een intelligente jonge joodse vrouw beschrijft de belangrijkste gebeurtenissen uit haar dagelijkse leven en de dingen waarmee ze bezig is, tussen 27 maart en 19 mei 1942.