Ester and Ruzya : How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace

The author provides a moving dual portrait of her two Jewish grandmothers, best friends--the rebellious Ester, who risked her life for the sake of her principles, and Ruzya, a censor under the Stalinist regime--who survived both the anti-Semitic cataclysm of the Holocaust and the terror of Stalinism. Reprint.