Thought for the Day

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day

is the rest we take between two deep breaths,

or the turning inwards in prayer 

for five short minutes.

~ Etty Hillesum

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Etty Hillesum, 1914-1943

Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork (Picador, 1996)

Elly Hillesum Centrum

Etty Hillesum Research Centre, Ghent, Belgium

Etty Hillesum Quotations

Robert Ellsberg, "Etty Hillesum: Mystic of the Holocaust", Essay at Grateful.org