1. Personal data (name, surname, rank, age, occupation, and marital status):
Corporal Stanisław Garguliński [illegible].
2. Date and circumstances of the arrest:
Arrested on 10 February 1940 and sent away as a military settler [?], a displaced person.
3. Name of the camp, prison, place of forced labor:
The hamlet of Gapszor [?] no. 31, Komi ASSR, forestry work.
4. Description of the camp, prison:
In the forest. Bad conditions, accommodation in barracks, bad hygiene.
5. Social composition of prisoners, deportees:
Nationality: 50 percent Ukrainians, mostly settlers. The intellectual standing varied; the attitude of Ukrainians towards Poles was very bad.
6. Life in the camp, prison:
12-hour working day, quota impossible to meet, remuneration depending on the quota met. Food depending on the remuneration and number of family members. We had our own clothes. Social life existed only between Poles, there was no cultural life.
7. Attitude of the authorities, the NKVD, towards Poles:
The attitude of the NKVD was hostile and the Ukrainians spied on us for the authorities. Soviet propaganda, hopeless news concerning Poland.
8. Medical assistance, hospitals, mortality:
Medical and hospital help was poor. Mortality was very high due to a typhoid fever outbreak.
The following people died: Kłosowski, Nowakowski, Bilski, Lubos, Lubos, Widełko, Widełko, Zając, Zamorska, Ceglarz, Czarny, Morawski, Garguliński, etc.
9. Was it possible to keep in touch with the home country and your family?
Contact with the home country and our families was sufficient, controlled by the NKVD.
10. When were you released and how did you join the army?
I was released following the Polish-Soviet agreement, and my family and I made our own way to the south of Russia, where a Polish army was being formed.