Esfir (Esther) Kaplan Lupyan was born in Minsk, Belarus, in 1936. She and her mother survived the Minsk Ghetto, then the forest. After the war, they were reunited with her exiled father in the Vork...view moreEsfir (Esther) Kaplan Lupyan was born in Minsk, Belarus, in 1936. She and her mother survived the Minsk Ghetto, then the forest. After the war, they were reunited with her exiled father in the Vorkuta Gulag. Later, she and her family became “refuseniks,” before leaving the USSR for the United States in 1989.view less