The Serpent's Pillar

Chaim and Maria considered themselves the happiest couple in the world, but the one thing that no one can avoid intervened. War. They fled to another city. War almost caught up with them again, but they were lucky… if one can say that about the forced relocation of tens of thousands of Lithuanian families to Siberia. The large-scale resettlement campaign of unreliable elements into the depths of the country, undertaken by the Soviet government, became an unexpected salvation for Chaim and some of his fellow tribesmen from the destruction organized by the fascists from the first days of the capture of the Baltic states. However, those who were deported did not know about their luck. Many who were then sent further to icy islands died from hunger, scurvy, and hard labor in the cold. Chaim and Maria were preserved by love - the only thing they had left. Love, which was and is life.