1. Personal data (name, surname, rank, age, occupation, marital status):
Gunner Józef Gryckiewicz, farmer.
2. Date and circumstances of the arrest:
I was drafted into the army on 19 November 1940, into the anti-aircraft artillery in the town of Ivanovo, 250th Regiment.
3. Name of the camp, prison, place of forced labor:
We left for Moscow during the German-Soviet war. I was discharged from the army after 18 days of war, and sent to a work battalion in Gorky.
4. Description of the camp, prison:
In Gorky, our work consisted in digging ditches and installing underground cables.
5. Social composition of POWs, prisoners, deportees:
It was the 996th battalion and it comprised only Poles and Germans – a total of 572 people. A lot of people died while digging the ditches and planting mines. While digging, they came across a mine that had not been cleared.
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