"The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia" by Esther Hautzig "has impacted me for 22 years"

by "elderberries" (a user on amazon.com)

Excerpted from a customer review of The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia posted April 7, 2003 on amazon.com.

... Esther's life story filled my thoughts, my days and my head for years following, and reminded me to always care for others and not to take my life in rural United States for granted. Esther wrote in a way that made me feel as if I had somehow managed to form a personal friendship with her.

In 1995, I was able to speak with Esther on the phone, and I have never forgotten that wonderful conversation. Talking with her (she still has a very noticable accent) was as if the book itself came to life, because I realized I was actually visiting with the woman who was the couragous child in the book. Esther's writing encouraged me to be thankful, to be grateful, to be kind, and to never give up. I majored in journalism in college, and though I have never 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.

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Jewish Women's Archive. ""The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia" by Esther Hautzig "has impacted me for 22 years"." (Viewed on November 18, 2024) <http://qa.jwa.org/weremember/hautzig-esther/impact>.