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Book Reviews of Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork

Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork
Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life the Diaries 19411943 and Letters from Westerbork
Author: Etty Hillesum
ISBN-13: 9780805050875
ISBN-10: 0805050876
Publication Date: 11/15/1996
Pages: 384
Rating:
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2.9 stars, based on 5 ratings
Publisher: Owl Books
Book Type: Paperback
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ralegh avatar reviewed Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork on + 126 more book reviews
Etty was an amazing woman facing some of the most horrifying conditions imaginable. The diary and letters cover her last year and a half in the Netherlands during the German occupation. At first she seems to be concerned about very normal, ordinary things, but there is a point--easy to find if you're looking for it--where her outlook changes. She becomes a contemplative, finding God everywhere, and her perspective on what it means to be alive, even under the most limiting restrictions. She can do nothing to stop her future death, but she can make it transcendent.