A literatura de testemunho de Etty Hillesum: a escrita de si enquanto compromisso com a humanidade

Abstract

This research seeks to analyze the connection between testimonial literature and self-writing, two elements that are related and were very present in the literary production of the 20th century after the Second World War. Initially entering the characterization of this literature and the various questions it suffered as a legitimate historical source, it is intended then to go through the exploration of the writing itself, in a comprehensive way, and subsequently inserting itself definitively in the main source of this bibliographical research that are the Diaries of Esther Hillesum, which we will explore in detail in such points, as well as in the content of her reports, unique for her experience in Nazi-occupied Holland and also in the Westerbork transit camp, but also for the description of her spiritual evolution and connection with the divine, even amidst the horrors of the period, with traces of unparalleled richness and contribution as an example of faith and confrontation, intending in the end to prove not only that such written production is an important source of study of such characteristics of writing and literature, as a memory of the Holocaust and a tool to aid the reader, it should be better explored and sought after. only for the academy but in general, as it is a way of example for coping with borderline situations.