Etty Hillesum

Esther "Etty" Hillesum (15 January 1914 – 30 November 1943) was a 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.

Personal facts

Birth dateJanuary 15, 1914
Birth nameEsther Hillesum
Birth place
Amsterdam , Netherlands , Middelburg
Ethnicity
Jews
Date of deathNovember 30, 1943
Place of death
Auschwitz concentration camp , Poland , Gross-Rosen concentration camp , Dachau concentration camp

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External resources

  1. http://ettyhillesumcolombia.mex.tl
  2. http://www.amazon.com/Anne-Frank-Etty-Hillesum-Spirituality/dp/0813525497/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209124562&sr=1-7
  3. http://www.amazon.com/Etty-Hillesum-Flow-Presence-Voegelinian/dp/0826217974
  4. http://www.amazon.com/Writing-As-Resistance-Confronting-Holocaust/dp/027102285X/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209124414&sr=1-6''
  5. http://www.ehoc.ugent.be
  6. http://www.ehoc.ugent.be/congres2008
  7. http://www.evs.ugent.be
  8. http://www.jhm.nl/cultuur-en-geschiedenis/personen/h/hillesum,+etty