Volunteer Janina Fronkiewicz
My family and I were deported to Russia on 10 February 1940. We were taken to the Irkutsk Oblast, the Nizhneudynsk region, to a hamlet called Krasny Bor. I spent the whole summer working there, along with my brother and sister. We worked hard in the woods. After a few months I was arrested by a Polish citizen, Aniela Zygmunt. Separated from my old mother, my sister and my brother, I was imprisoned on 11 October 1940. I was ill-treated during the interrogation.
On 15 October, I was deported to Irkutsk where I was put in the prison and where I stayed until the amnesty in 1941. I was released on 2 September and returned to the hamlet. Then my family and I left the hamlet, but on the way I got separated from them, and I haven’t heard from them since.