A new Israel Festival production brings the diaries of Dutch Jewish writer Etty Hillesum to the stage, exploring how she found meaning amid the horrors of the Holocaust.

A new Israel Festival production brings the diaries of Dutch Jewish writer Etty Hillesum to the stage, exploring how she found meaning amid the horrors of the Holocaust. Link Getting to know Etty Hillesum, the Holocaust diarist starring at the Israel Festival Hillesum was 27 when she started putting pen to paper, much older than Frank and, hence, her writing relates to a more advanced stage of life and state of consciousness and awareness.