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