Victory of the Spirit | Israel Today
Isaac Harari/FLASH90 Etty Hillesum (Public Domain)Etty Hillesum’s spirit broke out and accompanied us for a significant part of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day. Etty was a Dutch Jewess who perished in the Holocaust at the age of 29 at the Auschwitz extermination camp. During the war she wrote diaries that were buried only to be unearthed 40 years later. They have been published in every language possible. In her diaries, Etty gives voice to the insights of a young woman inside an extermination camp. She knows where she’s going. She knows she’s going to meet death soon. And ...
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