Diario 1941-1943

Una donna speciale Libro ricavato dai diari scritti in piena Seconda Guerra Mondiale, ad Amsterdam, nell'Olanda invasa dai nazisti. Etty Hillesum era una giovane donna ebrea. Mentre annotava avvenimenti e riflessioni, anche una ragazzina a poca distanza scriveva il suo Diario: era Anna Frank. Siamo di Leggi tutto

The writing is wonderfully alive. It is like having a conversation. That Etty Hillesum was a young Jewish woman suffering the terrors of Nazi occupied Holland and finally the death camp, that she was engaged in the most peculiar relationship with therapist Julius Spier, that her age, circumstance, b Leggi tutto

I highly anticipated reading this long book that has been likened to Anne Frank's diary and tells of a young woman's life in occupied Amsterdam but after 200 pages I gave up. Skimming further towards the end it seemed to go in a similar vein to the first 200 pages. Etty writes endlessly about being

"Non possono farci niente, non possono veramente farci niente". Su Radio3 stanno leggendo, da ieri (8 gennaio), i meravigliosi Diari di Etty Hillesum (1914-1943). Riascoltabili su podcast ("Ad alta voce" è il titolo del programma). Sono i diari che scrisse tra il marzo del '41 e l'ottobre del '42. Ier Leggi tutto

'I will never ever anywhere die. Diary'. Spoken by a true mystic. Death is a myth. Isn't it? She died but didn't, really. She went to a better place where there was no Nazism, no Fashists, no nothing bad and only the glory of God was a thing to behold. And God must have rained love on all the souls wh Leggi tutto