Elsie Erickson: Vanya

Bedroom Dept: "She came to the bedroom and spoke and said 'Vanya stavai politcia skaya, the police are here,"' Erickson said. "And from the tone in her voice I jumped out of bed. . . and I tried to hide.", according to CTV. Nearly 60 years later, she remembers her father asking if the family had time to pray and vANCOUVER It was between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. and Elsie Erickson's mother had just begun lighting the stove when four RCMP officers barged into their tiny wooden home in the village of Krestova, B.C. The seven-year-old had barely scurried under her bed when she was dragged back out by her foot. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.