The German family JUNKER lived in LENINGRAD before the war, on the Volkovski prospect, 144. The father, Michael Mikhailovich (1907-1941), was a worker. On 1st July 1941 he was sent to the front. He defended Leningrad somewhere near Detskoe Selo and lost his life in October 1941. His brother Jossif (Josef) Ivanovich JUNKER (born 1915, now lives in Frunse), also a worker, was mobilized on 22nd June 1941, sent back home in September and went back to his usual work.
Towards the end of the first winter during the Leningrad blockade they received a single oilcake on food ration cards - and exclusively lived on that.
On the 16th March 1942 the families of Michael JUNKER and Iossif/Josef JUNKER were transported away from Leningrad by the Communists:
They crossed the ice of the Ladoga Lake by trucks. Then they were bundled into wagons and taken to Siberia. During the whole journey they were given food, and twice they were lead to baths, available at the railroad stations. However, many died on the way, for the people were utterly exhausted. On the train there were not only Germans, but also Poles.
First the train was supposed to be unloaded in Omsk, but having arrived there, they were not allowed to get off. The train stayed in Novosibirsk for one day and one night, then left for Krasnoyarsk.
On the 12th April 1942 they all had to get off the train in KRASNOYARSK and were taken down the river Yenissey, across the ice, by horses. Both families came to the timber industry in USTKAN, 3 km away from KONONOVO railroad station, in the district of SUKHOBUZIMSK. Jossif /Josef was sent into the "Trud-Army", to the KRASLag (RESHOTY) and later to a mine in the KEMEROVO region. He was released in September 1945 and returned to his family.
They were only placed under military command in 1946; the commandant's office was dis-banded beginning of 1956. After the war Agatha tried to get a job, which she would at least be paid for. In the kolkhoz there was nothing to earn one's living with.
Filimonova, who sometimes deputized for the district commander, allowed her to work in the district hospital.
After the war LALOV was head of the MGB (USSR Ministery of State Security) in the district of SUKHOBUZIMSK; he did not only arouse fear among the exiles, but also among the local residents.
TORBIN, a militiaman, commited various cruelties. After 1956 this ruthless person was discharged from the militia. They employed him as a watchman at the state bank; in the beginning of 1960 he shot dead one of the militia superiors and was sentenced to execution by a firing squad.
In July 1948 the old BABKIN worked as a watchman at the SUKHBUZIMSK hospital; once, while collecting berries together with some other villagers, he made some inopportune joke, and was arrested a few days later. Nothing is known about his further fate.
July 13, 1990, recorded by V.S. Birger, Krasnoyarsk, "Memorial" Society