Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter's Reckoning

2018 AABS Book Prize Winner
2018 Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature in Nonfiction

When Julija Šukys was a child, her paternal grandfather, Anthony, rarely smiled, and her grandmother, Ona, spoke only in her native Lithuanian. But they still taught Šukys her family’s story: that of a proud people forced from their homeland when the soldiers came. In mid-June 1941, three Red Army soldiers arrested Ona, forced her onto a cattle car, and sent her east to Siberia, where she spent seventee...