From 1941 to 1943, a twenty-seven-year-old Jewish woman kept a diary in Amsterdam. The result is an extraordinary document, both in terms of its literary quality and the faith it emanates from. An unwavering faith in man as he carries out his darkest misdeeds. Etty Hillesum left the Westerbork transit camp on 7 September 1943, from where she sent admirable letters to her friends, and died in Auschwitz on 30 November of the same year.
The majority of works discussing the Jewish thought opt for a partial view of this tradition: the history of a particular period, religious aspects, ritual dimensions, thematic perspective, or studies of the Bible, any of […]
75 years after the liberation of the German concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, this book brings together two strong and inspiring testimonies. That of Hélène, a French resistance fighter who was arrested, tortured and then deported […]
“Just Among the Nations”: more than 3,500 French people have received this distinction awarded by the Israeli institute Yad Vashem, which rewards non-Jews who saved at least one Jew during the Holocaust.Who are these men […]
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