1. Personal data (name, surname, rank, age, profession, marital status):
| Corporal Jaśniewski [?], born in | 1907, profession: Polish Safety Guard; married. |
| 2. Date and circumstances of | arrest: |
| I | was taken prisoner on 18 September 1939 outside Włodzimierz; while being taken to |
Shepetivka, we were sleeping in the fields on the way without any food.
3. Name of the camp, prison, forced labor site:
Forced labor camps Hoszcza, Zborów, and Brody.
4. Description of the camp, prison:
Hoszcza – Polish army barracks;
Zborów – wooden barrack;
Brody – wooden barrack.
Housing conditions were usually poor, hygiene poor.
5. Compositions of prisoners, POWs, exiles:
Poles, Ukrainians, and Byelorussians. Mutual relations were poor; you could hear: “Poland will be no more, and Poles had oppressed us for 20 years!”
6. Life in the camp, prison:
[Work] was from 8 to 10 or 12 hours a day, hard working conditions, and high quotas which were impossible to fulfill. Clothing was scarce, remuneration low. Social life was good, but cultural life was poor.
7. Attitude of the local NKVD towards the Poles:
Attitude of the NKVD towards Poles was negative; there were frequent questionings. Talks were held every day after work.
8. Medical assistance, hospitals, mortality:
Medical care was insufficient; sick people would be hustled to work with a temperature of 40 degrees [Celsius].
9. Was there a possibility to contact one’s country and family?
Contact with the country and family was poor; [I received] news from my family once.
10. When were you released and how did you manage to join the army?
I was both released and joined the army in Starobilsk.
Place of stay, 25 February 1943.