In December 1941 the Soviets deported the German ARNDT family from SCHILLING, a village in the canton of KRASNY KUT, Autonomous Republic of the Volga-Germans:
ARNDT Emmanuel Mikhailovich Arndt (1901-1943),
ARNDT Ewa Petrovna (1897-1985),
ARNDT Maria Emmanuelovna (born in 1924), now named
Weiber,
ARNDT Ida Emmanuelovna (born in 1929), lives in
Irkutsk,
ARNDT Alexander Emmanuelovich Arndt (born in 1933), lives in
Boguchany,
ARNDT Viktor Emmanuelovich Arndt (born in 1937), died,
ARNDT Irma Emmanuelovna (born in 1940), lives in Krasnoyarsk.
The deportees were discharged in KANSK and sent via the settlement of Aban to the village of ALEKSEYEVKA, in the district of ABANSK. On 24.01.42 the Communists forced Emmanuel ARNDT into the "Trud-Army". He was detained in the KRASLag, in NIZHNAYA TUGUSHA. Later he was taken to KANSK (probably to the zone for invalids). He died in KANSK on 13.08.43.
During the exile some "genius" in the commandant's office registered Emmanuel ARNDT's children by adding "Danilovich" (for the boys) and "Danilovna" (for the girls) as their father's first name. Alexander and Maria have kept this wrong name until today.
On 03.06.43 Maria ARNDT, too, was forced into the "Trud-Army" - to the settlement of UST-PORT, in the district of NIZHNE-YENISSEYSK (further down from Dudinka). Later the mother and the remaining children were taken to BOGUCHANY; only Alexander ARNDT stayed to live at the original place of his exile.
Not before autumn 1950 Maria ARNDT was finally given the permission to leave UST-PORT and see her mother. She then settled in BIDEYA in the district of BOGUCHANSK.
July 03, 1995, recorded by V.S. Birger, Krasnoyarsk, "Memorial" Society
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