A Trip to Nowhere

Graphic Novel - True Stories of a Secret History

THEY USUALLY CAME AT NIGHT

Our fathers disappeared months earlier. Now, they were coming for us.

KRYSTYNA'S MOTHER

There was a knock on our door in the middle of the night. The dogs went wild.

THEY SAID WE WERE SPIES

How could that be? We were only children.

THE SISTERS WERE TAKEN TOGETHER

TRAPPED WITH STRANGERS

We were put on trains in the middle of the night. We traveled for weeks across 11 time zones - trapped inside dark cars with people we didn't know.

SEVERE WEATHER TOOK MANY LIVES

Many people died due to the subfreezing temperatures. Others lost toes and feet due to frostbite.

MANURE AND STRAW FOR BRICKS

To stay warm and make bricks to build shelters, the children mashed the manure and straw with their bare feet.

A NIGHTMARE THAT WOULDN'T END

During the first year in the camps, more than 1 million women and children died due to severe weather or lack of food.

THE OLD GYPSY QUEEN DIES

We traded old nightgowns to the gypsy family so we could get a proper burial for our grandfather. He was buried in the same grave with the gypsy queen.

TOO MANY DEAD BODIES TO COUNT

So the heads were saved in some camps to help later identify the victims.