At the beginning of 1941 the Communists deported the Volga-German family BITTER from the village of SCHILLING, canton KRASNY KUT, Autonomous Republic of the Volga-Germans:
Together with other villagers they were chased to KRASNY KUT station, loaded on freight cars and taken to the Krasnoyarsk region.
At that time AMALIA BITTER's husband was fighting at the front. From there he was sent to the "Trud-Army" (= Labour Army) to Kasachstan, afterwards lived there in exile and stayed to live in this place after his release.
The train was unloaded in KANSK. AMALIA BITTER was taken to some village (probably in the KANSK district) together with her children. In summer 1942 she was chased away from the kolkhoz and sent via Kansk and Krasnoyarsk, by way of the rivers Yenissey and Angara to the BOGUCHANY district, into the forest area of GOVORKOVO, on the left bank of the river Angara.
Later they were moved to the neighbouring village of SALEDEYEVO on the left bank of the Angara (10 km north of GOVORKOVO, but yet situated in the district of KEZHMA). After he had finished school, THEODOR BITTER worked in various districts of the BOGUCHANY forestry.
They exiled were released in January 1956. VIKTOR BITTER then went away to live with his father in Kasakhstan. AMALIA BITTER and her youngest son later lived in Kansk.
March 4, 2001, recorded by V.S. Birger, Krasnoyarsk, "Memorial" Society