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 a nurse. She was also a very close friend of Etty Hillesum. Tuinzing lived in the Wegerif house on the Gabriel Metustraat in Amsterdam, the same house where Etty resided for several years. Etty gave Maria her diaries before returning to Westerbork for the last time. Tuinzing then passed Etty's journals on to Klaas Smelik and his daughter Jopie (Johanna).