![]() ![]() “Everything I do comes from Vilna,” she told the Jewish publication Forward in 2002. 18, 1930, and had a charmed early childhood in a prosperous and cultured city. Of the 57,000 Jewish residents of Vilnius at the beginning of the war, only 3,000 survived.Įsther Rudomin was born Oct. Most of their relatives who had remained in Vilnius (then called Vilna) had perished in the Holocaust. “I went to school there, made friends, learned how to survive no matter what life brought.”Īfter the war, her family reunited in Lodz, Poland, discovering that their forced exile had probably saved their lives. “We spent nearly six years in Siberia,” Hautzig wrote in “Remember Who You Are: Stories About Being Jewish,” a 1990 collection of childhood reflections. ![]() Her grandfather died at 72 in a forced-labor camp. Her grandmother lamented a lost world of servants and grand houses her father was sent to fight in the Soviet army and her mother worked in a gypsum mine and bakery. The struggles of those wartime years affected her family in different ways. ![]()
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