Life and Letters: An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork - Softcover

Hillesum, Etty

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805050876 ISBN 13: 9780805050875

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc, 1996

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

Etty Hillesum died at Auschwitz in 1943. She was 29. Her diary has been published as Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork.

Eva Hoffman is the author of Lost in Translation: A Life In A New Language, Shtetl, and The Secret. Her essays and journalism have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Yale Review, and other publications.

From the Back Cover

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 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805050876
• ISBN 13: 9780805050875
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400