Hillesum was twenty-seven years old when the Nazis began to round up Dutch Jews for deportation and extermination; her intense and personal religious faith led her to volunteer to be interned at Westerbork, a staging area for transport to Auschwitz. Working for the Jewish Council, Hillesum repor...
FROM TURBULANCE TO TRANSFORMATION THROUGH LOVE: THE INNERLANDSCAPE OF ETTY HILLESUMWhen recently given the task of proof reading the diary's ofEtty Hilleum for the second publication in Swedish (first was in 1983) I was once again deeply moved and impressed by this young woman, her life ...