1. Personal data (name, surname, rank, Field Post Office number, age, occupation, marital status):
Konstanty Krysztopowicz, born in 1920, laborer.
2. Date and circumstances of arrest:
18 February 1940, during a manhunt in Grodno.
3. Name of the camp, prison or forced labor site:
Ustvimsky [?] Region, 6th labor colony.
4. Description of the camp, prison etc. (grounds, buildings, housing conditions, hygiene):
Tundra, in the far north, with huts made of branches and erected on damp ground, covered in snow in winter, flooded in summer.
5. The composition of POWs, prisoners (nationality, category of crimes):
140 prisoners, 90 exiles. Nationalities: Poles, Jews and Belarusians. The majority were Polish settlers.
6. Life in the camp, prison etc. (daily routine, working conditions, work quotas, remuneration, food, clothes, social life etc.):
Camp life: We were taken to work [illegible], where you were supposed to dig a four meters deep pit in the frozen ground [illegible] froze to death en masse.
7. The NKVD’s attitude towards Poles (interrogation methods, torture and other forms of punishment, Communist propaganda, information about Poland, etc.):
NKVD interrogation: first word [illegible] two punches in the face, three days in solitary confinement for saying [illegible]. Communist propaganda [illegible] during a meeting, they tried to convince us that the whole world should be communized and that Poland would never be restored.
8. Medical care, hospitals, mortality rate (provide the surnames of those who perished):
Food in the hospital: a glass of berries, 200 grams of bread. The doctor: an ordinary man, who could [illegible]. Diseases: dysentery, typhus, scurvy.
9. Was there any possibility of getting in contact with one’s country and family?
I sent seven letters but received no answer.
10. When were you released and how did you get through to the Polish Army?
I was released on 16 September 1941, after considerable difficulties.
Official stamp, 19 March 1942