One Woman Play on the Life of Etty Hillesum

I went to see a work in progress today at a friend's house--the work is a one woman play based on the diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum, a young Dutch Jewish Woman about to be deported from Holland to Auschwitz.  All the words in the play are Etty's, the performer, Susan Stein, is just arranging and editing them.  I can't tell you how amazing I thought it was.  This woman was incredibly insightful and intellectually curious.  Here is a website about the play.   And here's the Amazon site for her letters and diaries.

I don't know why I had never heard of this woman before--though several reviewers of the letters and diaries suggest that she is not as well-known as Anne Frank because she was an adult with all of an adult's complicated views and complex life.  Politically she was an anti-fascist socialist, spiritually she was on a journey of self-discovery which ended with a conversion to Catholicism (which she did not use to try to escape from deportation).  She was in love with several close companions of both genders.  And she talks both of her hatred toward the Germans and what they are doing, but also how she feels that hatred separating her from them--how can they unite around hatred?