Topics addressed: 

Volhynia – Lavrov (1918–1939); 2nd mass deportation (13–14.04.1940); transport to Kazakhstan (1940); work and conditions in kolkhoz; Maykain (Kazakh SSR); relations with Kazakhs; contact with family in Poland; schooling in Kazakhstan; repatriation – Łobza (1946); the situation of *Sybiraks* after the war in the so-called Polish People’s Republic (1945–1989)