Esther Hautzig

Esther R. Hautzig (born Rudomin ) (born 18 October 1930 in Vilnius, † November 1, 2009 in New York) was an American author who is known for her book The Endless Steppe. For this they received an award. She wrote it in 1968.

Esther Rudomin was born in the then Polish Vilnius. Her childhood was interrupted by the Second World War and by the occupation of eastern Poland by the Soviet Union. Her family was uprooted and deported to Siberia in Rubtsovsk. She lived there for the next five years in harsh exile. Her book The Endless Steppe is an autobiography about the years in Siberia. After the war, she and her family moved back to Poland, at that time she was 15 years old. Hautzig wrote the presidential candidate Adlai Steverson, who had written an article about his visit to Rubtsovsk. They used it as a drive for her book.

Life

Rudomin met Walter Hautzig, a concert pianist who was on a tour of America, which was 1947. They married in 1950 and had two children, Deborah, a children's author, and David. Esther died on 1 November 2009. She was 79 years old, and died of heart problems and Alzheimer's. Hautzig was instrumental in discovering and finally at the publication of the thesis of her uncle, Ela - Chaim Cunzer ( 1914-1943/44 ) in mathematics, which he had written in 1937 in the University of Vilnius. He died in a labor camp.