A personal account of a Polish family’s forced deportation to Siberia in 1940 and how they rebuilt their life in England after the Second World War. In Siberia they were to experience some of the harshest conditions that led to the deaths of many thousands of their countrymen. The family was fortunate to survive its ordeal, and due to an amnesty was released from the labour camp. Alongside other Polish families their escape route took them through Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Persia, the Middle East and Africa. Eventually the whole family settled in England after the Second World War. This remarkable account is a tribute to the fortitude of people in the most adverse circumstances imaginable and to the frequent good nature of total strangers.
