Rosja: Escaping Hitler Was Just The Beginning Rosja is the chronicle of the bitter experiences of the more than 200,000 Jews who were deported to Siberia by the Soviets during World War II. Rosja is the inspirational history of many, many heroic individuals who braved bitter cold, gnawing hunger, virulent disease, and countless hardships but who, nevertheless, despite almost insuperable difficulties, demonstrated an unswerving commitment to Yiddishkeit from which we today can extract timeless lessons of faith. Rosja is their story. One out of three Jews sent to Siberian labor camps died because of the impossible conditions under which they were forced to work. Individuals who had never in their lives done hard physical labor had, for example, to learn how to chop down huge trees, cut them into logs, and facilitate their transport to nearby rivers for shipping, all in temperatures of 45 degrees below zero or lower. Rosja brings to life an era of Holocaust history that has not received as much attention as others. It will fill in the gaps about what life was like in Siberia under the iron fist of the Soviets.
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