Kpfa - Talk-it-out Radio

​Host Nancy Kahn ​is joined by Dr. Barbara Morrill who presents Part II of our series on the life of​ ​Etty Hillesum​. Etty was a ​young Dutch Jewish woman of twenty-seven, ​who ​found an inner path to liberation, and ‘union with the ground of her being’ in the face of the horror of her times, the Nazi genocide sweeping across Europe, which ultimately engulfed Etty and her family in late 1943.  The life of Etty Hillesum moved from chaotic family dysfunction, to the healing of her own inner distress, depression, mood swings and somatic complaints, toward a vast inner life of spaciousness and presence, even with the awareness of the Nazi ​​horrors that awaited European Jewry.  Her mode of resistance was journal writing, and contributing to others, and as Denise de Costa says, ‘It was with her pen, rather than with her sword that she battled to save humanity.’ (de Costa, 1998​). Dr. Morrill​ explores aspects of Etty Hillesum’s process of transcending the ​​hate ​of​ her time, by “reposing in herself” which may b