AUGUSTA —The Holocaust & Human Rights Center of Maine will host a performance of Martin Steingesser’s “The Thinking Heart: The Life & Loves of Etty Hillesum” on Thursday, Aug. 9.

The piece, featuring two voices and one cello, is based on the journal and letters of Etty Hillesum, a Dutch woman who lived in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation and died in Auschwitz in 1943. It is an original arrangement of her journal and letters in the form of poems written by Steingesser.

The one-hour performance will begin at 7 p.m. at the center which occupies space with the library on the University of Maine at Augusta campus.