Etty Hillesum

Etty Hillesum
Hillesum in 1939
Born
Esther Hillesum

(1914-01-15)15 January 1914
Middelburg, Netherlands
Died30 November 1943(1943-11-30) (aged 29)
Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland
NationalityDutch
OccupationWriter
Known forDiary and letters from camp Westerbork

Esther (Etty) Hillesum (15 January 1914 – 30 November 1943) was a Dutch Jewish author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the German occupation. In 1943, she was deported and murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp.[1]

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