Most all survivors are like the two teens - young enough and able enough to escape. When the war ends, Michael and Luba return to their hometown and find it demolished, and learn that all of the 8000 remaining Jews have perished and are buried in mass graves. At this point, Michael and Luba have to venture east to Uzbekistan, where they survive by their perseverance. The excitement (if you can call it that) and the state of uncertainty, go on until the summer of July 1942, when once again the Germans are on their way to Stalingrad. The sibling's story of courage and loss is portrayed - sometimes in horrible details - as an improbable survival situation of Polish Jews who went on to live their lives in other countries but, never forgot the bias and prejudice they had to live through. The siblings ran on foot and by train into the Ukraine and beyond, and spent a horrible winter in a town near Stalingrad in Russia, where they nearly died of cold and hunger.
Into the Soviet Union they ran, and went even further into the Ukraine. This is one such story of Michael, 16, and his sister Luba, 19, who fled their home in Dubno just ahead of the German Armies. Many, mostly young people, fled the town and went into the Soviet Union and Central Asia. The German Army surprised the Soviet Union at this time with an invasion that killed most of the Jewish faith who lived in the Ukraine. Shards of War tells the amazing story of a brother and sister still in their teens who escape the town of Dubno, Ukraine in June of 1941. Shards of War: Fleeing To and From Uzbekistan
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