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Endless Steppe, the - Esther Hautzig

Description: ISBN 006440577X / Author: Esther Hautzig / Genre: Biography / Tells the story of a ten year old Jewish girl who was exiled to a Siberian camp by the Russians in 1941.

Newest Review: ... book is the most vivid as Esther recalls the horrors of this insane world: the customary division of the healthy and weak ... more

... that means Esther's grandfather is separated from the family and his subsequent death, the nightmarish 2 month train journey with nothing more than watery soup to sustain them, the disorientating arrival in the camp and backbreaking work in a gypsum mine that they are forced to do. Though she also describes the unexpected mercies that existed alongside it: the local children who smuggled food to the slave labourers at considerable danger to themselves, the amnesty at the request of Britain that allows the Poles to be re...more

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Endless Steppe, the - Esther Hautzig: A Childhood in Siberia (867 words)
by edie - written on 03/04/01 (Very useful, 1606 readings)
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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 ...

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