"In June 1941, the Rudomin family is arrested by the Russians. They are accused of being capitalists, |enemies of the people.| Forced from their home and friends in Vilna, Poland, they are herded into crowded cattle cars. Their destination: the endless steppe of Siberia. For five years, Esther and her family live in exile, weeding potato fields, working in the mines, and struggling to stay alive. But in the middle of hardship and oppression, the strength...