Books by Esther Hautzig

Esther Hautzig was born in Eastern Poland (in what is now Vilnius, Lithuania) in October, 1930. When the region was conquered by Soviet troops in 1941, Esther, her parents and her grandparents were uprooted and exiled to Siberia where they spent the next five years in forced labour camps. The family returned home after the war and in 1947 Esther left to go to the USA as a student. Her acclaimed novel The Endless Steppe was inspired by her gruelling wartime experiences. She was married to a concert pianist and had two children. Esther died in 2009.

As a child, the author and her family were exiled to Siberia for being capitalists, thus inadvertently escaping the Nazis. After World War II, she began collecting the true stories of those who lived and died during the horror of the Holocaust: of Jews in Vilna, in the US, and in Israel. This title presents a collection of 20 true stories.