In 1939, George Landau was a little boy living in Poland when his life was upended — in the middle of the night, his family was forcibly removed from their homes and sent to slave labor camps in Siberia. It was the beginning of World War II, and the Soviet Army had invaded their county from the east, even as the German army invaded from the west.In the harsh, remote camps, the family struggled to survive with inadequate food and shelter.