Endless Steppe, the - Esther Hautzig

In much the same way that many pre-pubescants love Anne Franks' s Diary, I cherished The Endless Steppe when I was about 12 and have re-read it many times in the years since then. There are some similarities between the two, as both are non-fiction books dealing with a crime of WW2 told through the perspective of an adolescent Jewish girl. Though the Endless Steppe's background is much less well known and it has an infinitely happier outcome. In 1941 young Esther Rudomin (as she was then) lives a charmed existence in the pretty town of Vilna in Poland. She's a somewhat spoiled only child living with her large extended family and her parents are wealthy and ...  Read the complete review