This is an incredible tale of a childÕs survival during World War II. At age two, she was brutally shipped off in a cattle car to remote Northern Russia surviving kidnapping, abuse, and hunger. It is a story of a little known aspect of the war-the cruel deportation of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children to slave labour camps in the far reaches of the Soviet UnionÉ to a world of deprivation and death. It is, too, a compelling memoir of family and love and pride and courage, blending to defy the odds.