FREE: ESTHER HAUTZIG THE ENDLESS STEPPE

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In 1941 Esther and her family are arrested by Soviet troops because they were capitalists and were taken away from their home in Vilna, Poland and transported to Siberia in Russia. On arrival, Esther's mother and father are forced to work in a gypsum mine, and Esther and her grandmother must work in the fields. Eventually Esther and her family get a hut of their own, and Esther attends a local school in Rubtsovsk, but they still have to face the cold of the Siberian winter, summer heat, constant hunger, and the conscription of Esther's father into the Red Army. This is a hard cover book practically new.