![]() Through the pain and struggle, Lina is determined to make it out alive, no matter how hard survival may be. In an attempt to pass the time, Lina finds an outlet for pain in her drawings. Forced to work in unimaginably cruel conditions for the mere ‘reward’ of a single piece of bread, Lina fights with the others to survive. Just when Lina thinks that her situation couldn’t possibly get worse, they come to their final stop – a labor camp. In route to Siberia, Lina and her fellow Lithuanians are met with disgust, death, discomfort, and hunger as they travel packed into a single cattle car. As her cattle car travels farther and farther away from her home, she experiences constant worry, as she remains wondering where her father could be. Unknown to her father’s whereabouts, Lina and her family are swept from their house and thrown onto cattle cars with many other Lithuanians In the blink of an eye, her life changes forever. In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina is taken from her home in Lithuania by the Soviet military, along with her mother and brother. ![]()
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