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It's a shame Etty Hillesum is not as well known as Anne Frank. She's the Anne Frank for girls in their 20s-30s. She was someone I wish I could be friends or make out with. She was a cool, complicated, intellectual Jewish Dutch girl who died in the gas chambers. She was recomended to me by a friend a long time ago, and this was the first book of hers I was able to get my hands on. I wish that I could have gotten her diaries before I read the letters. While these were interesting, they weren't (I'm guessing) as introspective or personal as her diaries probably are (which is why I gave it three stars). This was more testimonial, and (this may sound a wee bit callous) I've read loads of Holocaust lit. over the years (taken several classes in it, etc.) and this was more of the same things I've already read about. I'm more interested in her life before she was put in the camps rather than while she was in the camps...so I'm looking forward to reading her diaries. Overall, I recomend reading her diaries first and then reading her letters.

2020-12-26 09:17