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Here is the incredible real account of escape from a Russian labor camp: an adventure of unusual warmth, spirit, and optimism. During World War II, the author was a 15-year-old boy in his native Rumania. which was then under German occupation. When the Rus¬sians advanced across the country. driving the Nazis before them. Jacques was picked up by the So¬viets on his way to school. Along with hundreds of others, he was herded into a crowded freight car and transported to Russia to work in the dreaded slave labor camps. Jacques was sent to a coal mine. Despite the beatings. the inadequate housing, the overwork. and the in-credible cold, he survived.