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3 unusual facts about Esther Hautzig


Esther Hautzig

Her family was uprooted and deported to Rubtsovsk, Siberia, where Esther spent the next five years in harsh exile.

Hautzig reportedly wrote The Endless Steppe at the prompting of Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson, to whom she had written after reading his articles about his visit to Rubtsovsk.

Rudomin met Walter Hautzig, a concert pianist, while en route to America on a student visa in 1947.


Rubtsovsk

Novelist Esther Hautzig recounts her experiences in Rubtsovsk during World War II in The Endless Steppe.


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