Etty Hillesum

On 8 March 1941, a 27-year-old Dutch Jewish student living in enemy-occupied Amsterdam made the first entry in a diary that was to become one of the most remarkable documents to emerge from the Nazi Holocaust. Over the course of the next two and a half years, an insecure, chaotic and troubled young woman was transformed into someone who inspired those with whom she shared the suffering of the transit camp at Westerbork and with whom she eventually perished at Auschwitz. Through her diary and letters, she continues to inspire those whose lives she has touched since: an extraordinarily alive and vivid young woman who shaped and lived a spirituality of hope in the darkest period of the twentieth century.This book explores Etty Hillesum's life and writings, seeking to understand what it was about her that was so remarkable, how her journey developed, how her spirituality was shaped, and what her profound reflections on the roots of violence and the nature of evil can teach us today.

ISBN 1847064264   Pages 128 ISBN13 9781847064264 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.   Weight (grammes) 227 Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 216 Publication date 29 Jan 2009   Width (mm) 138 DEWEY 940.5318092   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

		Foreword
		Who Was Etty Hillesum? A brief summary of her life		1
1		An Emerging Self		5
2		Discovering God		29
3		Refusing to Hate		55
4		Losing Her Life		77
5		Seeing Differently		103
6		A Woman for Our Time		133
		Some Significant Dates		155
		Notes		157

"This is a very precious book that left me feeling very grateful for the life of Etty Hillesum. Patrick Woodhouse has written about her with a clarity and unobtrusive simplicity that is wholly appropriate." One in Christ, Vol 43.1--,

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