We Were the Lucky Ones — Russia
Some family members are deported to Soviet labour camps in Siberia following the USSR's occupation of eastern Poland in 1939 under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
After the Soviet invasion of eastern Poland in September 1939, over one million Polish citizens were deported to Siberian labour camps in four waves between 1940 and 1941. Conditions were brutal; hundreds of thousands died of cold, starvation and disease. Many survivors were later released to join Anders' Army after Germany invaded the USSR in 1941.