KONSTANTY KASZUBSKI

1. Personal data:

Platoon leader Konstanty Kaszubski, 44 years old, locksmith [illegible], married.

2. Date and circumstances of arrest:

16 April 1940, Antonówka, at midnight, for opposing the Soviet authority.

3. Name of the prison and forced labor site:

Kovel prison until July, then in stages to Kandalaksha, Murmansk.

4. Description of the camp:

Hilly area, [work at] tunnel construction site; [accommodation] in tents while temperatures reached minus 50 degrees [Celsius].

5. Composition of prisoners:

Poles – political prisoners, mostly intelligentsia. Good cooperation, sincere mutual help.

6. Life in the camp:

8-hour days of heavy mining work; we could never attain the quota. There was no remuneration. Food consisted of: a thin barley soup with no fat two times a day, 600 grams of clay-like, dark, wet bread.

7. Attitude of the local NKVD towards the Poles:

When I felt faint, the camp doctor stated that I was fine and I was put in a punishment cell for three days, with 300 grams of bread and soup once a day (warm slop). During five months, it happened five times.

8. Medical assistance:

Very poor. Most of the Poles were ill with scurvy.

9. Contact with the country and family:

Correspondence was irregular (we were allowed to write once a month).

10. I was released:

In November 1941. In March 1942, I reported to the Polish Military Commission in Margilan, and was incorporated into the 9th Infantry Division.

Place of stay, 23 February 1943