1. Personal details (name, surname, rank, military mail no., age, profession and marital status):
Wacław Bzik, corporal, 34 years old, State Forest ranger, married.
2. Date and circumstances of arrest:
On 10 February 1940, [I was] arrested along with my family by the NKVD.
3. Name of camp, prison or place of forced labor:
[illegible] settlement, Tayshet region, Irkutsk Oblast.
4. Description of the camp, prison etc. (terrain, buildings, housing conditions, hygiene):
Impenetrable Siberia taiga. General rooms in barracks, [illegible] crowded, millions of bedbugs, family tasks ([illegible]).
5. Composition of prisoners, POWs, exiles (nationality, category of crime, intellectual and moral level, interpersonal relations etc.):
Mostly foresters and settlers, good relations, people gave each other moral support.
6. Life in the camp, prison etc. (daily routine, working conditions, quotas, remuneration, food, clothing, social and cultural life):
The work lasted eight hours if it was not [illegible]; and I often stayed even three days loading the wagons, with breaks of a few hours, from one trip to the next, and because it was eight kilometres from the place where the wood was stored to the barracks, we were not allowed to go home, but only waited for the wagons at the storehouse.
7. NKVD authorities’ conduct towards the Poles methods of interrogation, torture, punishment, communist propaganda, information about Poland etc.): They told us that the Soviet Union [is] the largest and strongest in the whole world, and Poland had fallen forever.
8. Medical assistance, hospitals, mortality (surnames of the dead):
[no details]
9. Was there any communication with homeland and family? If so, how was it?
Until the Soviet-German war, correspondence from the Soviet partition was quite possible.
10. When were you released and how did you reach the army?
In September 1941, on the basis of the amnesty, I was released from Tayshet to join the army. I left with [illegible] no. 50, the Kirov [?] Region, Almaty Oblast on 6 February 1942. I was conscripted to the 10th Infantry Division in Lugovoy.
Army base, 30 January 1943.