Etty Hillesum

An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork

By: Etty Hillesum

Narrated by: Sophie Roberts

For the first time, Etty Hillesum's diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman in the midst of World War II.

In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of life whose lucid intelligence, sympathy, and almost impossible gallantry were themselves a form of inner resistance. The adult counterpart to Anne Frank, Hillesum testifies to the possibility of awareness and compassion in the face of the most devastating challenge to one's humanity. She died at Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of twenty-nine.

This audiobook is expertly read by Sophie Roberts, with audio engineering by Blake Rook. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

©1983 Jonathan Cape Ltd. on English translation. Letter from Westerbork copyright (c) 1986 by Random House, Inc. on English translation. (P)2025 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

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