num_pages: 235
description: September 1, 1939, promised to be another beautiful late summer day. Hank slowly walked to his aunt's house for one of her treats anxiously awaiting her call to come in. Already the smell of boiling chocolate wafted through the open kitchen window. "I hope she puts lemon sauce on it," he thought. It was just after noon, and the warm air stood calm between the buildings when a distant droning filled the air. Planes! Airplanes! His eyes searched into the hazy, blue sky, when suddenly the air was filled with a screaming, whistling sound. It rose to a crescendo and then ended abruptly in a series of loud explosions. The air shook, clouds of smoke rose from the direction of the railroad station, somewhere glass shattered. His aunt came rushing out of the house: "Get into the root cellar! The war has started!" That day, September 1, 1939, literally "out of the blue," a carefree and protected childhood came to an end, and Hank, a ten-year-old boy, was propelled onto a road of sorrow and deprivation, and toward years of foreign exile.
language: English
title: Exiled to Siberia
titlecomplete: Exiled to Siberia
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Crescent Lake Pub