Undoubtedly she drew some of her knowledge for these books from her childhood as well, having survived those years with few or no materials for such routine activities. Before writing The Endless Steppe, which recounts her experiences in Siberia, Hautzig published several other children’s books, which were more or less “how to” manuals for cooking, gift-making, and room decoration. Because they were prosperous, the authorities considered them capitalists and enemies of the state. She was ten years old when her family had to leave their comfortable upper-middle-class home in Poland to live in Siberia by order of the Soviet government. The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in SiberiaĪ young-aduit autobiography set in Siberia, Russia, from 1941 to 1946 published in 1968.Įsther Hautzig recalls her early adolescent years when her family was taken from their home in Soviet-occupied Poland and forced to live and work in labor camps in the Siberian steppes.Įvents in History at the Time the Autobiography Takes PlaceĮvents in History at the Time the Autobiography Was WrittenĮsther Rudomin Hautzig was born in Vilna, Poland, on October 18, 1930.
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