I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream...and life continues...

Spier also left Nazi Germany and came to Amsterdam in 1939 as a legal immigrant. It studies and promotes the research of Hillesum's World War II letters and diaries. Following his 25th jubilee at Beer Sontheimer in 1926 Spier withdrew from business life to dedicate himself to the study of chirology.

They were publiEtty Hillesumd posthumously in 1981.