In this film we discover the extraordinary message of the life of Etty Hillesum, this unusual young Dutch Jewess, who during those tragic years of the Nazi persecution in Europe, reveals her spiritual experience to us throuigh in her personal diary which she started in 8 March 1941.
Testifying to an extraordinary discovery, that of the presence of God in her innermost self, Etty is led to abandon progressively a rather chaotic life for one of union with God and of total self-giving.
Having realised that love is the “only solution” when the Nazi occupiers were rounding up the Dutch Jews and holding them in the Westerbork camp before deporting them to Auschwitz, she refused to go into hiding or to escape and chose instead to be sent to the death camps so that she could relieve the anguish of all these unfortunate people; she sees herself as “a balm on so many wounds” and as “accompanying God” into this darkness.
She died on 30 November 1943 in the Auschwitz concentration camp at the age of 29.