Mountain of Salt, City of Light - Part Six: Loving Our Enemies and the Story of Etty Hillesum

02.27 [Sermon] Mountain of Salt, City of Light: A Study in the Sermon on the Mount - Part Six - Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, says "Love your enemies" and Etty Hillesum did just that. Born a Dutch Jew, Etty ignored all advice from friends and, completely of her own volition, went to work in the hospital at the Westerbork Transit Camp - the final German outpost in the Netherlands before Auschwitz. She was able to provide care to the prisoners and show love and kindness to everyone there, even the German guards. But, before long, Etty found herself to be an inmate and writing from the camp she said, "There must be someone to live through it all, to bear witness to the fact that God lived, even in these times." She went on to write in her diary "Now is the time to put into practice - love your enemies." Finally, when Etty found herself on a train to Auschwitz, her own death at the hands of her enemies looming, she threw a note from the train that read, "Let them know, we left singing."