Boris Eifman (Борис Яковлевич Эйфман) (born 22 July 1946 in Rubtsovsk, Altai Krai) is a prolific choreographer associated with the Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg.
Her family was uprooted and deported to Rubtsovsk, Siberia, where Esther spent the next five years in harsh exile.
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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.
Novelist Esther Hautzig recounts her experiences in Rubtsovsk during World War II in The Endless Steppe.