Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life And Letters From Westerbork
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- 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 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.
- Copyright:
- 1996
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 393 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780805048940
- Publisher:
- Henry Holt & Company
- Date of Addition:
- 02/05/14
- Copyrighted By:
- Eva Hoffman
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
- Submitted By:
- Liz Halperin
- Proofread By:
- N/A
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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