Although Hautzig lived through a time of fierce oppression by both the Russians and the Nazis, her autobiography focuses more on childhood memories of life with her parents in Siberia than on descriptions of wartime brutality. Physical and emotional violence for example, are downplayed, as the reader only learns in a brief passage toward the end of the book that most of Esther's relatives in Poland were killed by the Nazis.
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