One of the last remaining survivors of the Gulag tells her astonishing story

Irena Godyn was 14 years old when the Soviet Union invaded Eastern Poland. She lived near the border so the Soviet's got there straight away. Even at that young age, she helped in the fight against the Soviet invasion by making Molotov cocktails. Her family was high on the list of those to be arrested and sent to Gulag. One NKVD officer threatened to shoot her father. Her reaction was instant and brave. They were sent to Siberia in a cattle wagon. One hole in the floor for a toilet for everyone. Temperatures so cold that her hair froze if it touched the side of the wagon. Her family brutalised, half-starved and frozen but resourceful. It is an astonishing story.