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Postponed activityAn interrupted life: The diaries of Etty Hillesum (1941-1943)

Meeting of reading group, lead by Joan Cardona

Wednesday, May 13,
Institut d'Estudis Nahmànides

Jewish narrative club in collaboration with the Carles Rahola Library.

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 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.

Activity in Catalan language

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