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Dutch Jewish diarist (1914–1943)

Esther "Etty" Hillesum (15 January 1914 – 30 November 1943) was a Dutch Jewish 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 the Auschwitz concentration camp.^[1]

Life

Esther Hillesum was born on 15 January 1914 in her family home in the town of Middelburg, the oldest of the three children – she had two brothers: Jacob, or "Jaap" (1916–1945), and Michael, or "Mischa" (1920–1944) – of Levie Hillesum (1880–1943) and Riva Bernstein (1881–1943).^{[2]: 17–24} After completing school in 1932, she moved to Amsterdam to study law and Slavic languages.^[2]: 25 There, she met Hendrik (Hans) J.

Wegerif, with whom she had a relationship that she describes in her diaries.^[1]

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