num_pages: 281
description: In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of life whose lucid intelligence, sympathy, and almost impossible gallantry were themselves a form of inner resistance. The adult counterpart to Anne Frank, Hillesum testifies to the possibility of awareness and compassion in the face of the most devastating challenge to one's humanity. She died at Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of twenty-nine.
language: English
title: An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-43
titlecomplete: An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-43
genres: History, World War II, Philosophy, Holocaust, Biography Memoir, Diary, Biography, War, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 3458
publisher: Washington Square Press