940.5318 HIL Hillesum, Etty. Etty : a Diary, 1941 - 1943 / E. Hillesum ; introd. author J. G. Gaarlandt ; transl. A. J. Pomerans. - London : Triad / Grafton Books, 1985. - 287 p. - Пер. изд. : Het verstoorde leven, Dagboek van Etty Hillesum, 1941 - 1943 / E. Hillesum. - Bussum, 1981. - ISBN 0-586-06251-3. - Текст : непосредственный. Notes : p. 285 - 287
Esther "Etty" Hillesum (15 January 1914 - 30 November 1943) 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 killed in Auschwitz concentration camp. As the dark night of Nazism descended upon Europe, she kept this extraordinarily moving diary. Etty Hillesum began writing her diary in March 1941. Her diaries record the increasing anti-Jewish measures imposed by the occupying German army, and the growing uncertainty about the fate of fellow Jews who had been deported by them. As well as forming a record of oppression her diaries describe her spiritual development and deepening faith in God. When round-ups of Jews intensified in July 1942 she took on administrative duties for the Jewish Council, voluntarily transferring to a department of "Social Welfare for People in Transit" at Westerbork transit camp. She worked there for a month, but returned in June 1943, by which time she had refused offers to go into hiding in the belief that her duty was to support others scheduled to be transported from Westerbork to the concentration camps in the German-occupied Poland and Germany. On 5 July 1943, her personal status was suddenly revoked and she became a camp internee along with her father, mother and brother Mischa. On 7 September 1943, the family were deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz. Before she left for Westerbork, Etty Hillesum gave her diaries for publication, should she not survive