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Saturday, November 9, 7:30pm
Carnegie Library Lecture Hall (4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213)

Etty is a touring one-woman play based on the diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum, adapted and performed by Susan Stein. Directed by Austin Pendleton.

Using only her words, Susan Stein’s adaptation brings us to 1941 when Esther “Etty” Hillesum, a young Dutch Jewish woman, is living in Amsterdam. Upon the recommendation of her therapist, Julius Spier, she began a diary on 8 March 1941 to help her with her depression. Hoping to become a writer, the diaries take on their own literary life, presenting both Etty’s growth as a writer and spiritual transformation.

Etty’s words, insights and beliefs reach out from the Holocaust and allow us to see the power of hope and individual thought in the most extreme circumstances.

The play will be followed by a discussion with the audience.

Register: https://jfedpgh.org/kristallnacht

Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh’s annual Kristallnacht program is generously supported by Edgar Snyder.