1. Personal data:
Gunner Andrzej Jemczyk, 24 years old, farmer, marital status: unmarried; field mail no. 161.
2. Dates and circumstances of arrest:
On 6 November 1940, I was arrested in Jarosław district and deported beyond Pechora River to a labor camp from there.
3. Name of the camp, prison, forced labor site:
Pechora lager, 13th unit, 9th settlement, forced earthworks.
4. Description of the camp, prison, etc. (terrain, buildings, living conditions, hygiene):
There were few Poles in the settlement. Living conditions were extremely poor, such that a portion of bread would freeze over.
5. Composition of POWs, prisoners (nationality, offense category, moral and intellectual standing, mutual relations, etc.):
Mostly the intelligentsia among Poles. Mutual relations with Russians were terrible.
6. Life in the camp etc. (daily routine, working conditions, quotas, salary, food rations, clothing, social and cultural life):
Work started at 6 a.m. [and lasted] until 6 p.m. Had a prisoner not filled the quota, he would have sat [illegible] as a punishment. Working conditions were very hard. The salary was as low as 140 kopecks a month. When it comes to clothing, some people would get it, but only udarniks.
7. NKVD’s attitude towards Poles (methods of interrogation, torturing, punishments, communist propaganda, information about Poland, etc.):
I was a prisoner who had committed no crime, but still I was kicked and beaten (with iron rods) without any reasons provided. The method of interrogation was to coerce [a confession] to something one hadn’t done by threats of various punishments or even death. Interrogations were only taking place at night.
8. Medical care, hospitals, mortality (list names of the deceased):
Deaths known to me: Błażejowski (an attorney from Lwów) died in the prison (Chersoń).
10. When were you released and how did you manage to get into the army?
I was released on 14 September 1941 from Pechora. Then I came to Totskoye with a special transport for the military on 22 September 1941.
Official stamp, 17 March 1943