Tag: An Interrupted Life

• Etty Hillesum – Finding Beauty, Meaning, and Optimism

  July 12, 2009

  Etty Hillesum was a Dutch Jew born on January 15, 1914. On September 7, 1943, following a deportation order, she boarded a train bound for Poland. The journey was to last three days. Before finally leaving the Netherlands she threw a postcard from the train. It was found and mailed by some farmers. It read, Read more