PAULINA BUSŁOWSKA

Volunteer Paulina Busłowska

I was arrested on 18 July 1940 in Białystok. A month later, on 18 August, I was sent to the prison in Minsk. I remained there until 2 June 1941, on which day I was deported to a penal camp in Kazakhstan, where I was to be imprisoned for eight years. The Soviets had tried me for being a member of a clandestine organization.

On 18 September 1941 I was released from the penal camp. I was ordered to live in the Troitsky District. At the railway station in Troitsk I learned that there was a Polish Women’s Auxiliary Service in Buzuluk. I traveled there, arriving on 28 September. On 1 October 1941, I signed a declaration requesting acceptance to the Women’s Auxiliary Service. I was duly accepted, and on 2 October assigned to the 6th Infantry Division as a community center worker. I worked in this capacity until we left Russia on 23 March 1941.