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Etty Hillesum. 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.
Nov 21, 2020 · Etty Hillesum was an eyewitness to the rupture of society and the collapse of all that seemed consolidated in the Western world, and especially in Europe. Hillesum wrote of physical pain in her body, of the pain of impotence when observing the pain of others, and she wrote of the exponential growth of suffering amid the meaninglessness of war. These same realities endure today and even increase.
Etty Hillesum’s diary, which she kept between 1941 and 1943, is the only extant source about her. Explicit in both its expression of sexuality and profession of faith, Hillesum’s diary reflects a mature, nonconformist Dutch woman attempting to grapple with the changing landscape of her internal and external worlds.
Etty Hillesum’s diaries and letters were first published in English in 1983. Her writing has been embraced across the religious spectrum; her universal messages of love of humanity and God, and of acceptance of suffering, have particularly resonated with Christian and Buddhist readers. Yet Hillesum has yet to fully enter the canon of modern Jewish literature, and deserves to be counted among the great Jewish philosophers, thinkers and mystics of the modern era. ...
Nov 19, 2020 · Born in the Netherlands in 1914, Etty Hillesum—an assimilated Dutch Jew—was the oldest of four children in a well established middle-class family. Though they were part of the ethnic Jewish community, they did not participate regularly in Jewish religious practices. Etty was reared in a house permeated by both intellectual and artistic genius and profound mental illness.
Nov 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 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.
January 15, 1914. Died. November 30, 1943. edit data. Esther 'Etty' Hillesum was a young Jewish woman whose letters and diaries, kept between 1941 and 1943 describe life in Amsterdam during the German occupation. They were published posthumously in 1981, before being translated into English in 1983. Etty spent her childhood years in Middelburg ...
Aug 2, 2021 · Etty Hillesum was a Dutch Jewish woman whose published letters and diaries span the years 1941 – 1943, when she was twenty-seven to twenty-nine. Her writings wind their way from the artistic and intellectual world of Amsterdam, to Westerbork detention camp, a staging ground before her final deportation to Auschwitz.
Nov 21, 2020 · Etty Hillesum & Albert Konrad Gemmeker: A Twofold Analysis of the Perpetration of the Westerbork Commander “Now is the Time to Put into Practice: Love Your Enemies”: Several Notes on Hillesum’s “Love for Enemies” in Levenskunst; The Cares of the Pagans: The Reading of Matthew 6:25-34 by Søren Kierkegaard and Etty Hillesum;
Esther (Etty) Hillesum was born on 15th January 1914 in her parental home at Molenwater 77 in Middelburg. When Etty was two, her brother Jacob (Jaap) was born on 27th January 1916. Four years later, with the birth of Michael (Mischa) on 22nd September 1920, the family was complete. The three children, Etty, Jaap and Mischa were raised in a family where their father spent most of his time reading books or out at work and their mother ran a chaotic household. Louis Hillesum, their father, who ...
