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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.

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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.

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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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