1. Personal data:
Józefa Słowicka, born in 1924, pupil, single.
2. Date of deportation:
Deported from the settlement on 10 February 1940.
3. Place of residence :
Komi ASRR [Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic], village of Kurdon, Lenin kolkhoz.
4. Place and its description:
The Soviet area; wooden barracks; dirt was everywhere.
5. The composition of deportees:
There were 27 Polish families in Kurdon and four Ukrainian [families]. Mostly people were intelligent. The Poles never left their spirit. Relations between Poles: favorable.
6. Life in the camp:
Working day: eight hours in the forest, very high quotas (impossible to do), no salary at all. Food and clothes [had to be dealt with] on your own.
7. The NKVD authorities’ attitude towards the Poles:
The attitude of the NKVD towards us was very bad and unfavorable. They tried to get information, but it was always good for Poland.
8. Medical care:
There were physicians. Hospitals were dirty; high mortality.
9. Contact with the country:
Letters were delivered irregularly and rarely.
10. Release and joining of the army:
I was released on 18 September 1941. I was enlisted in the army in Tehran in June 1942.