Etty: A Diary, 1941-1943. Triad, 1985.
Vintage paperback. Some creasing and wear to cover and edges. Previous bookshop sticker on front cover. White sticker on first page. Some minimal marginalia within. Good condition.
"Etty Hillesum was the Dutch author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the German occupation. In 1943, she was deported and murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp." (wiki)
"Etty Hillesum’s diary, which she kept between 1941 and 1943, is the only extant source about her. Hillesum’s diary reflects a mature, nonconformist Dutch woman attempting to grapple with the changing landscape of her internal world. In doing so she develops a mystical relationship with the God inside of her. When Hillesum is forced to wear the Yellow Star in April 1942, she realizes she cannot ignore the political realities of her external world any longer. Her diary is explicit in its expression of sexuality; Hillesum simultaneously took Han Wegerif and the “psychochirologist” Julius Spier as her lovers. After Spier’s sudden death in September 1942, her diary reads like a long prayer to her personal God. Hillesum was murdered at Auschwitz in December 1943." (JWA.org)