Corporal Hipolit Skibel, 47, prison guard officer, married.
I was arrested during a stroll, on Dominikańska Street in Grodno, on 17 April 1940.
From the time I was arrested until I was deported, that is, 21 March 1941, I was in prison in Grodno. Court judgment o.so. [?] on the basis of article 74, sentenced me to eight years of forced labor in remote countries.
My stay in prison was very hard: unbearable hunger, unheated cells in winter, hygienic conditions were below a critical level, [a bath] once every two months. For six months, I did not see the outside world; after six months, they started taking me out into the yard for 15 minutes once a week.
When I was taken away from the prison, they did not return the things they had taken away from me during searches.
The place [I was assigned to] for forced labor was Workuta [Komi Republic in Siberia]. [There was] various kinds of labor, with specified quotas. Clothes and footwear [were] the same as in all the camps.
I was released on 10 September 1941. My direction was Buzuluk. There, I was not admitted because of overcrowding, [so my] new direction [was]: Tashkent – Samarkand – Krasnovodsk. My last place of temporary stay was Lenin Vasylyat [?] kolkhoz, Bolonhursk region [?]. [There was] various kinds of labor on the kolkhoz.
The end of this good life came on 10 February 1942. I joined the Polish Army in Karos [?] on 14 February 1942, where the Railway Sapper Battalion was stationed temporarily.
[My] final assignment: Sapper Battalion of the 7th Infantry Division in Narpay [village in Uzbekistan].
Verification: 14 March 1942, in Narpay.
104. Transport [Company], car drivers’ course.
14 March 1943