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Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork
Contributor(s): Hillesum, Etty (Author), Hoffman, Eva (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0805050876     ISBN-13: 9780805050875
Publisher: Picador USA
OUR PRICE:   $20.70  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 1996
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Annotation: 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.
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Jewish
Dewey: B
LCCN: 96002960
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.54" W x 8.42" (0.85 lbs) 416 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Holocaust
 
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Hillesum, Etty: - 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.Hoffman, Eva: - 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.