by Esther Hautzig
Review:
This is a story about a ten-year-old girl, Esther Rudomin, whose family is arrested in 1941 and taken from their home in Poland and sent to Siberia. She describes this event as "the end of my lovely world". "The author of this deeply moving personal narrative spent her years between ten and fourteen as a Polish deportee in a remote, impoverished Siberian village. Taken prisoner by the Russians in 1941 and shipped by cattle car to a forced-labor camp, Esther, her mother, and her grandmother managed to stay together and to keep each other alive through near starvation and arctic winters." I loved the voice in this story and definitely would recommend it to anyone who loves historical fiction.
