Topics addressed: 

Soviet prisons in the Eastern Borderlands (1939–1940); second mass deportation (April 13–14, 1940); conditions during transport; Donetskoye settlement (kolkhoz No. 2) – North Kazakhstan Region (Kazakh SSR); religious life during deportation; schooling in the Soviet system; Sikorski–Maysky Agreement (1941); post-return trauma; difficulties gaining admission to university; post-war repressions by the UB (1947–early 1950s); completion of middle school in Ciechanowiec; graduation from the College of Pharmacy/Drugstore Management in Warsaw; studies at the University of Warsaw (Russian philology); commencement of an academic career.