"I was 5 years old when I, my mother, grandmother, and younger brother were sent to Siberia “forever” without trial and investigation on April 8, 1951, from the small town of Skole in the Carpathian Beskids. Early in the morning, soldiers led by the NKVD came to us and ordered us to collect all our property. I remember how my mother very quickly gathered all our things in an old Polish chest. And we, together with that chest in Skole, were loaded into freight cars. We rode for about 2 weeks. As a child, I was not anxious because of our being exiled. Frankly speaking, I even found it interesting and exciting. Upon arrival, we were transferred to a sleigh and transported on ice across Lake Baikal to the area of Molta, Irkutsk region". In the photo, Theodozia is sitting on the same old Polish chest that went with the family to Siberia and returned from it. Next to her are her mother’s Siberian felt boots, which saved her feet in the fierce Siberian frosts at -50 Celsius. Theodosia spent 9 years in exile. She 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.