An Interrupted Life
Subtitle: The Diaries, 1941-1943 ; and, Letters from Westerbork
By: Etty Hillesum ; translated from the Dutch by Arnold J. Pomerans ; foreword by Eva Hoffman ; introduction and notes by Jan G. Gaarlandt.
Contributors: Gaarlandt, J. G.; Hillesum, Etty, 1914-1943.
Publisher: Henry Holt
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York (New York), USA
Language: eng
Translated from: dut
Translation of: Het verstoorde leven: Dagboek van Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943 / Het denkende hart van de barak: Brieven van Etty Hillesum
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Hillesum, Etty, 1914-1943.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Netherlands -- Personal narratives.; Jews -- Netherlands -- Biography.; Netherlands -- Ethnic relations.
Other titles: Letters from Westerbork
Description: "For the first time, Etty Hillesum's diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman. 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Previously published (1st work): 1st American ed. New York : Pantheon Books, 1984. Previously published (2nd work): 1st English language ed. New York : Pantheon Books, 1986.