In the beginning of Endless Steppe, Russian soldiers arrested and forced Esther and her family from their home in Vilna, Poland. The Russian soldiers then put them on crowded cattle cars. Every so often, they would stop for some soup and fresh air. Sometimes they would go nights without food or drink. During this trip to Siberia they all get a lot skinnier, and don't reali

At the end of Endless Steppe, they move into the city in Siberia and they receive new jobs to earn rubbles. The mother worked at a bakery. The father was sent to the front lines in the war. Esther goes to school and makes clothes and sells them to make money. Esther meets a girl named Svetlana in school and becomes best friends with her. Esther is active in school activities like newspaper editor and joining contests. The Rudomin family lived in a lot of huts with many different people. One time they got their own hut, but then they had to move out because it was too cold when winter came. Another hut they stayed at was so small that they had to find a home for their grandmother somewhere else. Esther's mother never accepted anything from anybody, until one day she accepted soap. <

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