Jolly blue eyes have been silent for over 80 years.

It was 1940, winter came and covered the ground with a white coat of snow, when the Bolsheviks stormed home of 11- years old Czesia.
The road to Siberia lasted 10 days in a sleigh.
This journey took away home and brought silence.

Czesia’s childhood came on the bleakest times of modern history. The story starts just before the World War II and all the events are just the result of the war. Czesia sees all of them with the eyes of a child. Born in Maczki Wołyńskie (near Volhyn) in 1940, Czesia and her parents were in exile to Siberia. During the journey in sledges which took three weeks, Czesia fall into coma and when she woke up, all she could hear was silence.

She and her family were travelling between Iran and Uzbekistan, before they have finally arrived to England in 1946.
They have stayed in a camp near Tavistock, where she met her husband with whom she later moved down to Plymouth, where she lives until these days. This year she is celebrating her 92 birthday, and her eyes are full of joy and dreams.