JÓZEF MOŁODECKI (5 years and 5 months in exile) - born on July 28, 1936 in the Telatyn colony, Uchanie commune, Hrubieszów poviat, where he lived until 1939. In the spring of 1939, his parents moved to Stasin, poviat Włodzimierz. Parents were farmers. On February 10, 1940, the family (10 people: grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, aunt and 5 children) was deported because of the fact that grandfather was a legionnaire (he took part in the Polish-Bolshevik war in 1920).

In March 1940, they found themselves in Siberia in the Sverdlovsk Oblast. All the adults were felling the forest there. They lived in terrible conditions. The worst was in 1943, when the men went to war, and only the elderly, women and children remained in the camp. There was a terrible hunger - people were getting half of their food rations at that time. In this unfortunate year, Mr. Józef was close to death: some "native - robber" wanted to take his bread from him, and when he did not give it, he was hit in the head with a cleaver. A Russian doctor treated him for several months.

In October 1944, the family was transported to the warmer region of the USSR on the Black Sea. And so they ended up in a kolkhoz in the Kherson Province. It was warm here, there was food and kind people.

In July 1945, they returned to Poland, to Hrubieszów. They settled in Telatyn, where they got a farm. Currently, Mr. Józef Mołodecki lives with his wife in Zamość.

HISTORICAL FACTS RELATED TO BIOGRAPHY:

10^th of February, 1940 - deportation of the Mołodecki family

March 1940 - the family moved to Siberia, in the Sverdlovsk region

1941-1942 - work at clearing the forest, grandfather and parents trying to support the family.

1943 - Polish men join the army and fight the Germans alongside the Red Army.

1944 - Poles, whose family members fought in the army, are transported to a warmer region of the USSR.

4^th of October, 1944 - beginning of stay in Kherson.

July 1945 - end of wandering and return to Poland.