An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941–43 Category_Grey Books/Country Life AFTERWORD BY ISABEL RAPHAEL

AFTERWORD BY ISABEL RAPHAEL

to shake off the ties that many mothers seemed to think it was their prerogative to impose on their daughters

In a Lonely Place (1947)

It was also a bestseller in the United States: from 1806-44 there were fifteen American editions

as the author calls it

An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941–43 Category_Grey Books/Country Life AFTERWORD BY ISABEL RAPHAELTRANSLATED BY ARNOLD J. POMERANS INTRODUCTION BY JAN G. GAARLANDT PREFACE BY EVA HOFFMAN 464pp ISBN 9780953478057 An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 194143 is undoubtedly one of the most important pieces of writing published by Persephone Books. Etty Hillesum lived in Amsterdam and, like Anne Frank, she kept a diary as life for Jews became more and more restricted and, finally, doomed. The first months of the diaries are