Who is Maria Tuinzing from An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943 and what is their importance? "An_Interrupted_Life:_The_Diaries_of_Etty_Hillesum

Maria Tuinizing was one of Etty's closest friends. She was employed as a nurse, and like Etty, lived in the Wegerif house on the Gabriel Metustraat in Amsterdam. Etty gave her diaries to Maria Tuinzing before she returned to Westerbork for the last time. Tuinzing then passed Etty's journals on to Klaas Smelik and his daughter Jopie.