Specification |
Content |
Rank, name and surname of |
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the interviewee. |
[Illegibile] Amsterdamski Saul (imprisoned) |
The expulsion of the civilian |
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population. Its course |
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and conditions. |
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Methods of interrogating |
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and torturing the arrestee |
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during investigation. |
Interrogations took place usually at night. Threats and intimidation were used to force a confession of spying for Germany. We were forced to sign twisted and falsified interview reports. |
Court procedures, ruling |
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in absentia, ways of |
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delivering verdicts. (Full |
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texts of judgments are |
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particularly desirable). |
Court decisions were rendered at night and in absentia. The text of the judgment was more or less as follows: The Special court passes a sentence of five years in the corrective labor camp for spying and for crossing the border (we weren’t allowed to appeal against the verdict). |
Cases of people who were |
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murdered during their march, |
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during their deportations, |
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during their stay in prison |
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or during their work as |
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forced laborers. |
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Life in the prisoner-of-war |
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camps. |
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Life in the forced labor camps |
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(camp organization and |
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work quotas). |
Living conditions: cold, damp and overcrowded barracks, water unfit for drinking. Work lasted for twelve hours before the outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, and for fourteen hours afterwards. Work quotas. The work quota involved carting 12 cubic meters of sand in a wheelbarrow at some 250 meters distance, and extracting 5 cubic meters of clay and carting it 150 meters. This quota was impossible to fill, and failure to meet the quota resulted in a reduction of food rations. |
Life in prisons. |
A cell, seven by nine meters, housed 54 people. Food: boiled water in the morning (sometimes 20 grams of sugar), 600 grams of damp bread; dinner: a soup with fish and refilled water; supper: the same soup, 0.75 liters. During my eight months in prison [there was] one 30-minute walk on account of the renovation of our cell. The cell was infested with bedbugs. |
Life in settlements and the |
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Soviet authorities’ attitude |
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towards the Polish population |
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sent into exile without |
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court judgments. |
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16 March 1943 |
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