In 1942, as the extermination of the Jewish community in Holland was inexorably put into effect, a young woman of 27 wrote in her room in Amsterdam: «What I am now experiencing, and which is not just my own, I have no right to keep for myself.» She felt such a spiritual awakening was so meaningful that she started describing it in a diary - which remained unpublished for half a century. Although she had been brought up outside of any religious or denominational influence, she reports in her highly personal and expressive style how she progressively discovered, through the influence of a German Jew, who had been a disciple of Jung, her personal vocation to make her young life a testimony to the presence of God in the midst of the most tragic events of this century. She died in Auschwitz in 1943.
