Leyzer Fayvelovich SCHULDIENER (SCHULDINER), born in 1920, was evacuated from Lvov, where he had been working for a factory of non-alcoholic beverages, to the settlement of Labinskaya, region of Krasnodar, on the 22.06.1941, and then called up to CHELYABINSK - to the labour army. He worked there as an unskilled worker for the Stalin Works, in the 8th forced labour camp sub-sector of Trust No. 22.
They arrested him on the 23.03.1943, seized his passport and put him into a cell in the basement of the CHELYABINSK prison. At night they chased him to the investigating officer. First of all Leyzer Fayvelovich wanted to know, why he had been arrested and how long they intended to keep him a prisoner. The reply was: "As long as necessary". The investigating officer asked him a few questions and then explained to him that he was a spy. When the prisoner heard this he fainted. He regained consciousness in the punischment cell. There was so little space that he could only stand upright. They let him out the following day and guided him to the interrogator again. he said he had been presented "statements" by members of my brigade, which proved that Leyzer Fayvelovich had praised the living conditions in Poland. Apart from that he had been in a place called Drogobyche at a time, when the Hitler troops had been there. The investigating officer demanded that he "pleaded himself guilty to having committed espionage" - buth with this demand he ws not successful at all. Leyzer Fayvelovich was transferred to another cell with five inmates. They additionally placed an informer near him, who was to find out things the authorities needed to know and convince him of "pleading himself guilty". They chased him to interrogations every day. The investigating officer threatened him with shooting, but Leyzer Fayvelovich did not give in. He also refused to sign the existing bill of indictment. One month later and six months after his arrest he was transported away to the SVERDLOVSK transit prison, where he was pronounced the decicion of the troyka of the 08.09.1943: 8 years on section 58-1a. From the transport prison the transport travelled on to the IVDELLag.
Leyzer Fayvelovich was assigned work in a lumberjack brigade. Upon fulfillment of the work norm they received a bread ration of 800 grs, upon non-fulfillment they were taken to the cooler. Leyzer Fayvelovich, like many others, suffered from weakness and exhaustion; he often was unable to get the requested work done. He was forced to spend 6 years in this camp.
On the 27.01.1949 all prisoners sentenced on section 58-1a were sent to a forced labour camp with an intensified regime - the TAISHETLag (OZERLag). In this camp numbers were sewn to the clothes. Leyzer Fayvelovich received the number 502. The food was even worse than in the IVDELLag. Among the prisoners was Fedor Aksentievich PETROVICH. He now lives in Lesosibirsk.
Once, while they were felling trees, the accompanying guard began to show them, how many wild berries were growing around. Did this not mean "go and pick them"? A young lad passed through the forbidden zone and was murdered publicly.
On the 15.02.1951 Leyzer Fayvelovich was taken to the prison in KRASNOYARSK by a prisoner transport, where he spent about one month; then he was taken via Kansk to MOTYGINO, together with about 50 other exiles. During the exile he had to carry out work on a drilling tower in the district of UDEREY (today MOTYGINO). Once within two months he had to get checked and registered at the commandant's office. On the 07.07.1956 he was removed from the register. When they closed down the Motyginsk dispatch office, Leyzer Fayvelovich was transferred to the Turukhansk dispatch office. From there, in the middle of the 1950s, he started to write letters to Moscow, in order to get his rehabilitation. A KGB colonel came to Turukhansk and examined Leyzer Fayvelovich. He was rehabilitated on the 30.04.1958.
05.08.1991, recorded by N.I. Abrashitova, "Memorial" Society, Krasnoyarsk