ldquo The Lord is my high tower We left the camp singing rdquo On September Etty Hillesum wrote those words on a postcard then threw it from a train Those were the final recorded words we would hear from her On November she was murdered at Auschwitz Later Hillesum rsquo s diaries of her experiences in concentration camps were translated and published They chronicled her perspectives on the horrors of Nazi occupation side by side with the beauty of God rsquo s world Her diaries have been translated into sixty-seven languages mdash a gift to future generations who would read [... more]