In September 1939 the Germans & the Russians descended on Pol&. Country houses & churches were stripped of everything of value. The people were terrorised tormented & often murdered. Jozefa Eva Rataj was a young woman of eighteen when the Russians came to her village. With her parents her six brothers & sisters & many of their friends & neighbours Jozefa was taken to the railway station where they were loaded on to cattle trucks sixty in each. There was one small window & they were packed so tightly they could hardly move. Singing the hymn Under Your Protection they set off through the night destined for the wastes of Siberia & unimagined horrors.