An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-43

An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-43 by Etty Hillesum. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780671745554.

Etty Hillesums diary gives us the 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 ones humanity. She died at Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of twenty-nine.