Life was wonderful for Emmy Kindler as a child growing up in Vienna. In 1938, with the rise of Nazism evident and Hitler’s troops fast approaching Vienna, Emmy and her family fled in the dark of the night to Kraków.
What followed were years of hardship and terror as they fled the German soldiers, only to be captured by the Russians and placed in a slave labour camp to work in the relentless cold, snow and ice in Siberia.