Cover of Ester and Ruzya

Ester and Ruzya

how my grandmothers survived Hitler's war and Stalin's peace

by Masha Gessen

2004 371 pages eng

"In the 1930s, as waves of war and persecution were crashing over Europe, two young Jewish women began separate journeys of survival. One, a Polish-born woman from Bialystok, where virtually the entire Jewish community would soon be sent to the ghetto and from there to Hitler's concentration camps, …

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