![]() Fifteen year old Lina Vilkas, her younger brother Jonas (aged 11), and their mother Elena, endure hardship after hardship to stay together and survive captivity from the Soviets. Reading like The Diary of Anne Frank, this story recounts a part of WW2 from a young girl’s perspective. “They can’t take that away from us, right?’” (p. “‘Our sense of humor,’ said Mother, her eyes pooled with laughing tears. This story showcases terrible cruelties that were inflicted on the Baltic people thought to be anti-Soviet during WW2 as they were called “fasheest sveenya” (fascist pigs) repeatedly by the Soviet secret police at the time, the NKVD (forerunners to the current KGB). This is the story of a Lithuanian family who is taken in the middle of the night, and transported from Lithuania to Siberia. Over ⅓ of the populations from the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia were lost during the Soviet annihilation (p. This book breaks the silence of the Baltic genocides that happened during WW2. There are multitudes of horrors from WW2, but you may not have heard about this one. ![]()
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