[1.] Rank, name and surname of the interviewee:
Second Lieutenant Władysław Jagiełło (prisoner).
[3.] Methods of interrogating and torturing arrestees during investigation:
The interrogations took place exclusively at night. During interrogations they tried to make the arrestee admit to things that had never taken place. Particular confessions were extorted under pain of execution.
[4.] Court procedures, ruling in absentia, ways of delivering verdicts (particularly desirable are full texts of judgments):
Ruling in absentia. The sentence was read out to me at midnight.
[7.] Life in the forced labor camps (camp organization and work quotas):
Ukhta, camp no 3. About 2,000 people. 75 percent were Polish citizens. Soviet elements – the majority were political criminals. Bandits, murderers and the so-called zhuliks [petty thieves] were in the minority. However, this last group of criminals enjoyed special privileges, as the foremen and naryadchiks [work allocators], that is, those who supervised [illegible] chernorabochiye [laborers], were recruited from among them. Until the outbreak of the war with the Germans we worked 12 hours per day, and later 14 hours, and from then on we had a day off every ten days. One of the work quotas: to dig 12 cubic meters of earth, shovel it onto a platform and then unload it.
[8.] Life in the prisons:
A cell 8 by 4 meters large held from 30 to 40 prisoners. Food: 600 grams of bread, boiling water in the morning, a liter of soup in the afternoon, half a liter of soup in the evening. A walk once a day, from three to five minutes.
Official stamp, 16 March 1943