Etty Hillesum: Essential Writings

"I know that a new and kinder day will come . . . . And there is only one way of preparing the new age, by living it even now in our hearts."

Like Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) was a young Dutch Jewish woman who would perish as so many did in the Auschwitz death camp. Forty years after her death at the age of 29 the publication of her diaries, An Interrupted life, revealed to the world her remarkable voice.

In the last two years of her life, Etty expressed a deeply ecumenical mystici...