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In the year of 1939, the Soviet Union occupied the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
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Shortly after being invaded, the people of Lituania were listed if they were considered "anti-Soviet" and would be sent to be murdered, put in prison, or put into slavery at Siberia labor camps.
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Lina and her family are arrested by Soviet soldiers.
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The first deportations of the Baltic states were held on June 14, 1941.
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Lina leaves the train car, in search of her papa. Once she finds him, he gives her some clothes and food. Papa then tells Lina to be brave and that he loves her.
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The Vilkas are sent by train to the Altai Labor camp. They were sent to work right away.
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Some of the family's in the camp were sent to the Kolkhoz office late at night one night and the Soviets asked them to sign a document, agreeing they would be foreced to work for them for 25 years. Most of the people refused.
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Lina is asked by one of the soilders to draw a map of Russia for the commander, and she agrees.
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Jonas becomes very ill with a sickness called scurvy, and he cannot work for two weeks.
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Andrius hears word of a list and how the NKVD are moving people to an unknown place. He finds that Lina and her family are on the list to leave.
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Lina and her family travel throughout all of Russia on a train, and finally reach their destanation, in Trofimovsk, North Pole.
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Everyone in the camp in Trofimovsk is dying of typhus, including mother.
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Jonas and a little girl named Joana both become sick with scurvy (again) and almost die. Luckily, a Dr. Samodurov found the sick children and help them both back to health.
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Germany's Nazi army also in vaded Lithuania in 1944, but were "kicked out" by the Soviet Union in 1945.
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The Lituanians were to spend 10-15 years in then labor camps, if they survived. They were able to return to their homes in the mid-1950s.
