Etty Hillesum, Dutch author (born 1914)

Etty Hillesum

Dutch Jewish diarist (1914–1943)

Esther "Etty" Hillesum 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…