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An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-43
An Interrupted Life The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-43 Author:Etty Hillesum 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... more » challenge to one's humanity. She died at Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of twenty-nine.« less