1. [Personal details:]
Volunteer Anna Rajchel, born on 24 March 1920 in Przesietnica village, Brzozów district, lwowskie voivodship, a pupil in the 2nd grade of common school, unmarried.
2. [Date and circumstances of arrest:]
On 10 February 1940 I was transported to the USSR together with my older brother.
3. [Name of the camp, prison, place of forced labor:]
Arkhangelsk Oblast, Solvychegodsk region, Nizhnalupye village.
4. [Description of the camp, prison:]
We were living in old, dirty barracks filled with bedbugs. Hygiene was very poor.
6. [Life in the camp, prison:]
Together with my brother I was working very hard floating timber. The money we received for our work wasn’t enough even for food.
7. [The NKVD authorities’ attitude towards the Poles:]
For coming late for work or missing one day of work we had to pay a penalty or we were imprisoned.
8. [Medical care, hospitals, mortality:]
There was almost no medical care. There were many fatalities. Some of them I can name: Zofia Bąk, Anna Młynarczyk and the whole 8-person Zubrel family.
9. [What kind of contact, if any, was there with your family and country?]
We had contact with our family via post.
10. [When you were released and how did you get to the army?]
I was released in September 1941. In November, together with my brother, we left to the
south to Uzbekistan because we heard a lot about the forming of the Polish Army. We joined
the Army in Guzar.