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When Lisa asks her grandmother, Nettie Pauls, about her life before she came to Canada, Grandmother Nettie hands her her old diary that tells an amazing tale of survival during a time of war, famin

Rachel is a Jew living in Kishinev, Russia. At fourteen, she has dreams of being a writer.

It is 1904, and Rachel and her family are leaving Russia to escape the continuing riots against Jews. They take the Trans-Siberian Railway across the country and board a ship to Shanghai.

Rachel, a young Jewish woman from a small town in Russia, has made an incredible journey.