English Translation

- 3 - 16 He had then been sent to the forced labour camp Vetlak at the White Sea. There he would have died if an Estonian employed in the kitchen had not helped him during his illness. The camp inmates were like animals to each other. If one did not hold the allocated bread under his arm during the night, it had been stolen. Even the vouchers for the meals would have been stolen from each other by the prisoners. In December 1942 he and seven other Ukrainians had been told that they had been transferred to Czech unity. They welcomed this transfer as a passage into freedom. In the camp in Busuluk the Ukrainians were kept in quarantine because of various diseases. Although he had only a few weeks of training, he had to go to the front. His descriptions of the battle on 8.3.1943 confirm the information of the Egger. He also did not see a single burning German tank or fallen German soldiers. 3.) On 28.6.1943 the Slovak Imrich Kuric was heard. Kuric is the type of a rebellious and trusting Slovak who revealed an excellent memory and a certain intelligence in his statements. He had gone to Russia across the border because he had made a tremendous propaganda at his workplace in Slovakia about the excellent job opportunities in Russia and the good training conditions for the crafts. His wish had always been to learn a craft and therefore he had to go to Russia. He, too, was taken by the GPU shortly after crossing the border in June 1940 and sent to Sambor, where 20 men had been in a room in the mass of JASST b.w.