About this title: 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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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Date Published: 11/15/1996
ISBN-13:9780805050875ISBN:0805050876
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Edition: 1st printing
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780805050875ISBN:0805050876
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Date Published: 1996-11-01
ISBN-13:9780805050875ISBN:0805050876
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Owl Books
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780805050875ISBN:0805050876
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Date Published: 1996-11-15
ISBN-13:9780805050875ISBN:0805050876
Description: Very Good. Softcover in very good condition. Some visible signs of wear from previous ownership, but still a very good looking copy. May have remainder mark, or a small amount of writing on the inside. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Date Published: 1996-11-15
ISBN-13:9780805050875ISBN:0805050876
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HENRY HOLT & CO
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780805050875ISBN:0805050876
Description: New. 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 i... read more
"The record of a beautiful, questioning soul who sees life as whole and meaningful, even when it's most visibly divided and meaningless. She kept the diary in the two years before she was sent to Westerbork camp and then sent letters from the camp in the year before she was sent to Auschwitz and died there. She is humble and proud and fearless and scared and yearning, entirely human and brimming over.
"But I still suffer from the same old complaint. For the one word that sums up everything within me, the overflowing and rich sense of life. 'Why did you not make me a poet, oh God? But perhaps You did, and so I shall wait patiently until the words have grown inside me, the words that proclaim how good and beautiful it is to live in Your world, oh God, despite everything we human beings do to one another.' The thinking heart of the barracks." 1942
"People here fritter their energy away on the thousand irksome details that grind us down every day; they lose themselves in detail and drown. That's why they get driven off course and find existence pointless. The few big things that matter in life are what we have to keep in mind; the rest can be quietly abandoned. And you can find those few big things anywhere, you have to keep rediscovering them in yourself so that you can be renewed. And in spite of everything you always end up with the same conviction: life is good after all, it's not God's fault that things go awry sometimes, the cause lies in ourselves." 1942"
"Het verstoorde leven. Dagboek van Etty Hillesum. De vergevingsgezindheid en ongebroken vertrouwen in de mensheid is voor mij niet te bevatten. Ik merk dat ik er boos van wordt."
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