Siberia: The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia [Paperback]

Product Details

Reading level: Ages 10 and up
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins (May 12, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 006440577X
ISBN-13: 978-0064405775
Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

By : Esther Hautzig (Author)
Price : $5.99

The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia [Paperback]

Consumer Reviews

Esther's wonderfully sincere and illustrative writing will hold even an adult's attention from cover to cover. I have read it over and more than again for the last 22 years. As a kid in 1979 at age 11, I found myself in my family's frozen garden pretending to be Esther herself, wandering by way of Siberia in search of frozen potatoes. When I would take a bath, right after playing in the snow and receiving chilled, I would revel in the marvelous heat of the water and consider I had just been given a rare cake of soap. When thirsty, I would make myself wait for a drink of cool water from the tap until my throat was parched, so that the first drip of water on my tongue would be heavenly. I would then suck the water into my cheeks as Esther did and swallow especially slowly, trying to make it last. My younger sister and I would walk into my dad's livestock truck and pretend we had been on a cattle auto headed for the Steppe, and we would make a makeshift hut under a log fort we had near the barnyard. Esther's life story filled my thoughts, my days and my head for years following, and reminded me to usually care for other individuals and not to take my life in rural United States for granted. Esther wrote in a way that created me really feel as if I had somehow managed to form a private friendship with her.
In 1995, I was able to speak with Esther on the telephone, and I have under no circumstances forgotten that splendid conversation. Talking with her (she nonetheless has a extremely noticable accent) was as if the book itself came to life, given that I realized I was basically visiting with the woman who was the couragous youngster in the book. Esther's writing encouraged me to be thankful, to be grateful, to be kind, and to in no way give up. I majored in journalism in college, and even though I have never ever had such an extreme happening in my lifetime, I hope to eventually put down in words something that will touch other's lives as Esther Hautzig touched mine.

The Endless Steppe, by Esther Hautzig, is the correct story of a young Jewish girl named Esther Rudomin, and her loved ones living in Siberia. The Story takes location through World War II, when the wealthy Rudomin Family are pronounced capitalists. They are removed from their amazing property and loved ones in Vilna, Poland. They are taken by train, along with peasant families to an endless steppe in Siberia exactly where they are forced to perform in different places, which includes a gypsum mine. Siberia lacks a lot of necessities. The only way they are in a position to survive the harsh Siberian circumstances is the believed that they should never ever be brought down. With the enable of lots of close friends along the way, the Rudomins eventually study to fit into the Siberian puzzle. Every obstacle becomes element of their everyday life for 5 long years. I believed this was a awesome book because it shows how a wealthy family could survive in complete poverty throughout the worst of instances. The book also showed how a once spoiled small girl, learned how to see life on the other side of the fence.