Etty Hillesum Cards

Exclusively available in the United States in the Ritualwell online store.

In this box you will find a booklet and 100 cards with quotes by Etty Hillesum in three languages: English, Hebrew and Arabic. Created by two women peace activists, Dina Awwad-Srour and Emma Sham-Ba Ayalon, a Palestinian and an Israeli, they believe that Etty Hillesum’s words carry a wisdom of deep humanism that the world needs now so urgently.

Etty Hillesum was a Jewish Dutch woman who wrote her diaries during the Second World War. She was murdered in Auschwitz in 1943, at the age of 29. Her diaries, written during the last two years of her life, are a testimony of love and compassion, of trust in life and deep spirituality. Her diaries and letters she wrote from the concentration camp “Westerbork” show a woman who chose to believe in humanity against all odds.