Daily life in largest German Nazi concentration camp
by Bayshore Courier News
Posted:02/16/10

Lincroft, NJ - ("Etty" Highlights Women's History Month.) It was 1941 when Esther, "Etty" Hillesum, a 29-year-old Dutch Jew, was uprooted from her home in the Netherlands and transported to a Nazi concentration camp. Etty documented daily life in Auschwitz through diary entries. She wrote until she was sent to the gas chamber. Forty years later, in 1981, her diaries were discovered and translated into several languages around the world.

On Tuesday, March 9, the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Center brings to Brookdale Community College "Etty," the one woman stage show depicting the life of Esther "Etty" Hillesum. The presentation shares her struggle to find the good in life and humanity while living through one of the harshest times throughout history.

Adapted and performed by Susan Stein and directed by Austin Pendleton, Etty's story shows how far hope can bring one person. Etty did not allow herself to feel the victim and through Stein's portrayal, the audience can see how strong a woman Etty was.

The presentation will be held at the Warner Student Life Center, Navesink I room at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $5.00; for HGHREC Members and BCC students, admission is free. Payment may be made in advance to HGHREC. No credit cards will be accepted. For more information on Brookdales presentation of "Etty," please call 732-224-1889 or email nsherman@brookdalecc.edu.

For more information on March Woman's History events at Brookdale Community College, visit the homepage brookdalecc.edu and click on the Events Calendar.


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