Volunteer Eugenia Pawliszyn, born 10 November 1922, unmarried, with parents.
I was deported from the village of Dobrowody, Zbaraż district, Tarnopol Voivodeship, to Russia, Komi ASRR, ryluskoy district, Objatzevo rural settlement, on 10 February 1940. The journey took 27 days.
We suffered terrible conditions on the journey, there was no light and no water in the wagons and the wagons themselves were closed. They didn’t give us any food, and many people died during the journey. We were taken to the rural settlement and were forced to go to work straight away.
I worked in the forest, I carried lumber and labored very hard. The remuneration for work was very low, so that we weren’t able to support ourselves. My parents sold their last items to keep us alive.
There was no medical aid.
The amnesty was declared on 27 October 1941. I left Siberia on 27 December for Uzbekistan, Bukhara Oblast, Guzar raion, where I then worked in a kolkhoz in cotton fields for 30 dag of barley flour. As soon I learned that women were being admitted into the army, I submitted an application and got accepted into the Women’s Auxiliary Service as a volunteer.
I went abroad on 16 August 1942.
Temporary quarters, 11 March 1943