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An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-43
Published in Paperback by Pocket Books (1991)
Authors: Etty Hillesum and Etty Hellesum
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You will never read another book quite like this ever again!
My mother had given me An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum when I was twenty two years old. The words, thoughts, heart, and soul of this woman forever changed my life, my perspective, and what I would choose to do with my life. Perhaps what is most amazing about this book is that yes, it is written in the midst of the Holocaust by a young Dutch Jewish woman living in Amsterdam who eventually does get killed in Auschwitz, but the book is not about the war at all. The inner life, the inner strength and resources of this woman to face her life and still find absolute and startling joy in it despite what was happening all around her, is truly a marvel. I wish for everyone the chance to cross paths with this book.


Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork: The Diaries, 1941-1943
Published in Hardcover by Henry Holt & Company, Inc. (1996)
Authors: Etty Hillesum and Eva Hoffman
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Transformative
In these trying times, this book is a gentle reminder that terrible events have the curious power to make us better (more caring, more open, more alive) people. I was utterly transfixed by Etty's swift transformation from a self-absorbed whiner to a spiritual and philosophical mystic who transcended the horrors of her time.
As a memoir of life and death during the Nazi Holocaust, as well as a chronicle of spiritual transformation, this ranks among the very best.
Though it has been five years since I read the book, I am still inspired by Etty's courage and love.

Etty is a spiritual role model
This book is filled with some of the deepest most meaningful words I have ever read. Etty begins her diaries "struggling for true inner freedom" (p. 55) She achieves this. She turns inward to her faith at a time when thing around her are in total despair. She is a role model for others. In her twenty eight years she reaches a point of spirituality many of us do not. Excellent book. Begining was a little hard to get into but stay with it! Her writing becomes more clear, you can learn a lot from Etty.

This Is Difficult to Get Into, But Well Worth Staying With
I found this book very difficult to get into. Like many spiritual journals this book seemed at first overly self-centered and indulgent; one page read boringly very much like the page that went before. Her sleeping around and her bizarre therapy with Spier put one off. And Etty herself felt very deeply, vehemently, passionately; reading her can be like drinking water from a fire hose. One might feel like giving up the battle, but it will be well worth your while to push on. More and more one begins to see astonishing signs of spiritual growth and maturity and then of extraordinary achievement and grace. Emotionalism passes into selfless and self-sacrificing love. She moves speedily from her first ability to say the word God to constant prayer and even to a mystical union, all the more significant for being so unrelated to any conventional religion. In the midst of ever increasing certitude about coming annihilation, and eventually amid the horrors of the transit camp of Westerbork, this young woman not only manages to preserve her sanity and keep herself from hating her persecutors, but somehow even comes to rejoice in the beauty and meaning of life. It is truly a wonder how anyone could manage to grow to such transcendent greatness of spirit in so short a time. How fortunate for us that it happened to a woman who felt so deeply, knew herself so clearly, and wrote so aptly, and whose writings from the midst of the Holocaust has survived to our time.


Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum: Inscribing Spirituality and Sexuality
Published in Hardcover by Rutgers University Press (1998)
Authors: Denise De Costa, Mischa F. C. Hoyinck, Robert E. Chesal, and Denise de Costa
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An Abomination!
I have seen some wretched books on the market in my day, but nothing, absolutely nothing, is as offensive and as crass as this. First of all, psychoanalysis is not a science, which makes these authors' approach to Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum's respective ordeals cheap enough, but even with that, it's an abomination to put two women who were victims of the Holocaust under such horrific, over-analyzed scrutiny. As Richard Nixon once said, "I don't mind when people put me under a microscope, but when they use a proctoscope, that's going too far." Indeed! This book is so bad it's unbelievable.

A landmark!
Denise de Costa has written a valuable and extraordinarily
intelligent interpretation of Anne Frank the individual behind the writer, as she presented herself in her original diaries and then in the revised manuscript she prepared in hiding. Reading between these texts de Costa's insights are dazzling, critical and thought provoking: she examines Anne's motivation to write, her growing dependency on the diary, her unfolding maturity and her troubled relationship with her mother. This is a compelling book and a major contribution to our understanding of Anne Frank.

maganifcent book!
the book about anne frank is truely marvalous! A wondfull biography for a teenager or young adult! Defently mworth reading!

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Anne Frank & Etty Hillesum : spiritualiteit, schrijverschap, seksualiteit
Published in Unknown Binding by Balans ()
Author: Denise de Costa
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Dark Night Spirituality: Thomas Merton, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Etty Hillesum, Contemplation and the New Paradigm
Published in Paperback by The Pilgrim Press (1996)
Author: Peter King
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Das denkende Herz : die Tagebücher von Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
Published in Unknown Binding by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag ()
Author: Etty Hillesum
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Etty : de nagelaten geschriften van Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
Published in Unknown Binding by Balans ()
Author: Etty Hillesum
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Etty Hillesum Letters from Westerbork
Published in Hardcover by Random House Value Pub (1991)
Author: Outlet
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Etty, a diary, 1941-43
Published in Unknown Binding by J. Cape ()
Author: Etty Hillesum
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Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-1943
Published in Hardcover by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. (2002)
Authors: Etty Hillesum, Klaas A. D. Smelik, Arnold J. Pomerans, and Edward Van Voolen
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