What is the appropriate stance to take when facing one's enemies, and particularly when the enemies are the Nazis? Etty Hillesum gave much thought to this question when writing in her diary during the Second World War. What stands out are her notes concerning how to display forgiveness towards one's enemy, a topic which has been questioned before and slightly modified by various researchers. Most of this research uses the legacy left behind in Hillesum's complete and critical literary edition as a point of departure. Recently, this textual base has been extended to include, up until now, relatively unknown texts in Hillesum's later work: quotations which were copied down after her initial experiences in Camp Westerbork and also presumably for the most part after finishing her eleventh diary notebook in October 1942. Therefore, our recent study, Veel mooie woorden: Etty Hillesum en haar boekje Levenskunst [Many Beautiful Words: Etty Hillesum and her Booklet “Art of Living”], which edits these copied quotations, provides a noteworthy enlargement for studying Hillesum's thoughts on interacting with the enemy.