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Stan,

Thanks for the work you are doing. I didn't reply because my family were not deported to Akmolinsk, but i wish to correct a slip by Mark which appears to say that they were living in Przemysl.

Urszula Muskus and her children Zbigniew and Grazyna lived in Rawa Ruska where they were arrested and started their train journey on 13th Apr. 1940. Thirteen days later they alighted at Alga, south of Aktyubinsk and were sent to Tok-Man-Say kolkhoz.

Urszula's account is very detailed, but i assume that there must be small errors to her memory when writing over 20 years after the events. I love this recent review on Amazon by Peri.

'It isn't that often that you can describe a book with such a shocking subject matter as wonderful but that is what this book is. Strangely poetic and moving, the sparse prose sometimes shocks more than any detailed graphic description would. It feels honest and real and at times it took my breath away at the suffering and injustice of it all. Read it.'

Best wishes
Peter