Tina is the artist in the family – always looking for paper and pencil. Born in 1919, she was 11 when the family was arrested. In her bleak surroundings, she sees the beauty outside the barrack windows. But time for drawing is limited. Tina, a frail child according to her father, works in a smelter, in the forest, on the communal farm, and on railroad construction. No rain or snow storm halts their work.

In the forest, many kilometers away, she digs out trees, saws, piles and burns them. The ground is a swampy bog in the short summer months. In winter it is frozen hard. A chisel and axe break through the ice. Tina's reward is a bowl of watery soup with a few kernels of barley.

Work in the smelter requires loading coal into scorching furnaces. Coal dust covers her hair, clothes, eyes, and throat. This twelve-year old girl must leave for work at 3:00 am to fulfill her quota and receive her ration of bread. One day she fills her quota by 153%. Her reward is 200 grams of sugar.

Between work duties, Tina attends school with Lena. But it is difficult to study – "there is so much noise in the barrack." She loves to learn and cries when school is not possible. But school also increases her oppression. Father Jasch protests: "What are they taught? Always and only the justice of the sentence that has been passed on us!"

When not at work, she helps her mother chop wood, wash clothes, darn socks, and kill bedbugs that keep them awake at night. Or she stands in line for bread – on one occasion for two days. When there is bread, the aggressive adult prisoners get the best loaves.

Tina walks everywhere: to sign the list for bread, to receive bread, to buy food at a supply depot 12 kilometers away. Hunger yields to no obstacles. But it is illegal to leave the camp without a permit. If the Kommandant or prison guard meets her along the way, he will take her food and send her to the "Schlansnoge" [slammer].

On cold days, Tina wears the green overcoat [in the photo]. Her tattered green dress covers trousers supplied for prisoners, and twisted rags circle her feet. When wet, the foot rags feel "as if she is dragging irons." Her father reports, "Tina is never happy any more, always depressed. She is in the 'yoke' from early till late."

At eighteen (1938), Tina becomes a criminal of another sort. She is accused of burning the prison camp's Butter Factory. For 10 months, she is tortured in prison for burning a building that is still standing.

Finally free from her prison camp and exile in 1956, Tina found a semblance of normality. She married a Russian national and remained in Russia with her children. She died in 1995.