Exile/Camp Report given by Frieda Andreas (daughter of Iwan Andreas)

In September 1941 the ANDREAS family, Germans, was deported by the Soviets from the village of DENHOF, canton of BALZER, Autonomous Republic of the Volga Germans:

Ivan ANDREAS (son of Jakob) - (1901-1962),
his wife Jekaterina ANDREAS (daughter of Ivan) - (1901-1954),
their children Andrej ANDREAS (son of Ivan), born in 1926, lives in Kazakhstan),
Frieda ANDREAS (daughter of Ivan), born in 1927, lives in Krasnoyarsk,
Emma ANDREAS (daughter of Ivan), born in 1928 and
Eugenia ANDREAS (daughter of Ivan), born in 1938.

The journey to Siberia by train took about a month. Some of the deported persons were ordered to get off at SON station in Khakassia. The ANDREAS family (and another 8 families, all from DENHOF), were deported to the village of SNAMENKA in the BOGRADSK district / Khakassia.

Ivan ANDREAS suffered from asthma and, for that reason, was not called up into the "Trud-Army" in 1942. However, after 9 months of exile in SNAMENKA, in spring 1942, the Communists started to send all German families away to the North. The ANDREAS family got to the village of DVORETS, district of KEZHEMSK, on the river Angara. Another family from DENHOF, which had lived with them in SNAMENKA, also came to this place:

Karl PAPPENHEIM (son of Ivan), born around 1900,
his wife Maria Vassilevna PAPPENHEIM (daughter of Vassili ), born around 1900,
their son, approximately 6-7 years old, who fell ill and died soon after,
K. PAPPENHEIM's sister, Jekaterina PAPPENHEIM (daughter of Ivan), and her mother.

A total of 11 families came to the village of DVORETS, among them 3 families from BALZER:

Ivan WEIZEL (born around 1900) and his wife Jekaterina WEIZEL (born around 1900), without children;
Jekaterina SCHMIDT (born around 1900),
her husband and their children: Iwan SCHMIDT (born around 1928) and
Emilia SCHMIDT (born around 1924);
Jekaterina KRIN (born around 1900) and her mother.

The exiled remained under military command until 1956.

Nov. 28, 1991, recorded by V.S. Birger, Krasnoyarsk, "Memorial" Society

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