Corporal Michał Jagusz, born in 1895; I was a farmer, but I also used to engage in community work; married.
My family and I were deported as settlers. On 10 February 1940 I was deported to Komi ASSR. I worked in the forest there, logging. We lived, usually, in some forest barracks. The conditions were very meager: there was nothing to eat and remuneration for work was low; the children were hungry all the time. Sometimes I had to go to work without a morsel of bread, because they didn’t give us any bread for the children and I couldn’t bear that my children were hungry.
The authorities were hostile towards Poles. They punished and imprisoned us if we failed to report for work on time. Sundays and holidays weren’t observed; we worked around the clock. Remuneration was very meager.
I was released in 1941, and on 5 October 1941 I went south, to Uzbekistan, where I worked like a dog in a kolkhoz. I carried fertilizer in a sack on my back, and I had work quotas to fill, and as for food: 40 decagrams of flour and that was it. A lot of people starved to death in my colony. The majority died from hunger, and the Russians laughed and said “you’ll get used to it”.
All the above, which I certify with my signature, is true to the facts.