Etty Hillesum

Esther Hillesum, known as Etty, was born in Middelburg on 15 January 1914, the eldest of three children of a teacher of classical languages and a mother who had come from Russia after a pogrom. After secondary school, she left in 1932 for Amsterdam, where she obtained a law degree, studied Slavic languages and began psychology. Deported by the occupier with her family, she died at Auschwitz on 30 November 1943, aged twenty-nine; her parents and her two brothers, Jaap and Mischa, also perished in deportation.

In the catalogue 1

• DiaryAn Interrupted LifeHet verstoorde levenEtty Hillesum · 1981Literature