Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haife ta a Kaunas kuma ta yi karatu a makarantar motsa jiki ta mata. Bayan mamayewar Soviet na Lithuania, an kori iyalin a cikin farko na gudun hijira
wannan ya faru ne a watan Yuni na shekara ta 1941. Mahaifin Dalia ya rabu da sauran iyalin kuma ya mutu a Urals. Da farko an tura Dalia, mahaifiyarta, da ƙanenta zuwa yankin Altai, daga baya aka kai su Trofimovsk (Trofimovsk), wani tsibirin fursuna da ke bakin Kogin Lena da ke bayan Arctic Circle. Da yawa daga cikin 'yan gudun hijirar sun mutu saboda sanyi da yunwa.