Senior Rifleman Walerian Karbowski, born in 1893, farmer, married.
I was arrested on 3 January 1941 for hiding Polish officers and for arms possession. On 9 March I was deported from Lwów to Starobilsk, where I remained until 15 June, and next I was taken to Ural, to Karokin [?], where I was imprisoned in a gulag camp. In the prison in Starobilsk I didn’t work, but the food was meager, and in Karokin I worked as a carpenter, but I didn’t receive any remuneration in return, only meager food. The housing conditions there were deplorable.
I was sick for two weeks during my stay in Russia, but I didn’t receive any medical assistance. I was released from the camp on 1 October 1941 and sent to a kolkhoz in Torzuńsk [?] for farm labor, for which I received remuneration in the amount of 8 rubles per day, which wasn’t enough to buy even the most basic foodstuffs. A month later I was sent for farm labor to a kolkhoz in the area of Tashkent, with the remuneration of 1.5 rubles and 400 grams of proso millet per day.
On 14 February 1942, I volunteered for the army in Kermine.
Official stamp, 30 January 1943