"My mother began to dress me in everything new, new dress, new stockings, new shoes. But I quickly redressed, saying “I'm not going anywhere!”. I wanted to be at home. When we were being put onto a boarding truck, I broke free and started running around the car, shouting “I'm not going anywhere!” A soldier rushed after me, trying to catch me, but with no success. He and I ran 2 circles, after which a second soldier jumped out of the truck and they both caught me and put me on the truck. I was 5 years old at that time. At dawn, we were taken to Stanislav, where a freighter was already waiting. We were one of the first to be loaded into this boxcar, and a total of 50 people went with us to Siberia. Two weeks later we got off at Chuna station, and then we were put on sleighs pulled by horses. On the way to the settlement of Veselyi, we crossed the Chuna River twice, which had already started to melt. Although I sat on the sledge all the way, I was still cold, because my shoes were not intended for the Siberian cold". Hanna was taken to Siberia during a secret operation, called “North”, on April 8, 1951. At that time almost nine thousand Jehovah’s Witnesses were exiled to Siberia where they were forced to stay for some 14 years.