1. Personal details (name, surname, rank, age, occupation and marital status):
Lance Corporal Antoni Lisiecki, 41 years old, farmer, married.
2. Date and circumstances of arrest:
9 February 1940 in [illegible], Drohicki district, Polesie Voivodeship, as a military settler. At night, within 15 minutes, I was deported along with my father, mother, wife and four children.
3. Name of camp:
Nukht ozerskiy lesopunkt Arkhangelsk.
4. Description of the camp:
Forest, barracks with lice.
5. Composition of deportees:
Poles and Belarusians, mostly farmers and foresters. Generally good relations.
6. Life in the camp:
It was obligatory to work 11 hours a day, in fact I often even worked 36 hours without a break, chopping wood for steam engines. The quota: chopping 20 m3 of wood. Remuneration of two and a half rubles per day, from which food had to be purchased. Only Soviet newspapers and books.
7. Conduct of the NKVD towards the Poles:
The NKVD officers told us that Poland was gone forever and that we should get Poland out of our heads and live in the Soviet Union.
8. Medical assistance:
Within 19 months of 1,500 around 300 people died, mostly from exhaustion and hunger. After receiving the amnesty, while traveling to the south of Russia, about three hundred people died in the course of three and a half months (hunger and typhus). Among others, Corporal Stankiewicz and Engineer Sulkowski died.
9. Communication with homeland and family:
It was possible to communicate by post (very irregularly).
10. I was released:
On 15 August 1941. I was drafted into the Polish army, to the 9th Infantry Division, on 12 February 1942 in Jalalabad, having been approved by a joint committee.