Hillesum, Etty ___ 1914-1943 ___ Dutch ___ psychologist

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Ester, or Etty, was born to a Dutch father and a mother of Russian descent, and spent her youth in Middelburg, Hilversum and Deventer, in the Netherlands. Her father was a teacher. She studied law, psychology and Slavic languages in Amsterdam, and then worked for Julius Spier, a psychoanalyst and, apparently, an expert at reading hands. Nearly a year after the beginning of the German occupation of the Netherlands, in 1941, Etty began writing a diary. The following year she worked as a volunteer at the Westerbork internment camp. As a member of the Dutch Jewish Council she was, at first, able to move freely. In 1943, she and her family were interned at Auschwitz. They were killed the same year. Etty's diary and most of her letters were saved and published after the war.
A biography link
Wikipedia bio
The Diary Review - Let us go gracefully

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1941-1943 ___ religious self prison psychology Nazism

WEB TEXT LINKS
googlebooks
some pages
about and some extracts

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
 

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum
 

October 2005, July 2008, April 2013
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