July 1941 - December 1942

In the course of transporting along the river the exiles were called over to the bank and Euphrosinia could stay in one of the Ob villages at a communal farm but she wanted to work in lumbering because the work with wood was known her since Bessarabia times and she thought the pay for that kind of work would be higher. Bur she was wrong.
Bessarabians were the deported special settlers. They chose neither place of residence nor kind of work, their labour was coercive, slave. They had 12-hour working day. The exiled found themselves in the taiga hard climate - a short summer with gnat and a long cold winter.
Euphrosinia found herself in a back-country village on the river Anga where she fell trees for the construction of a narrow gauge railroad and a winter road. Then, the exiled were transferred to Harsk where there was virtually no work and therefore no food. When winter came the Bessarabians were re-settled in Ust-Tyarm. Thinking that she would be able to buy she might need Euphrosinia hadn't taken winter clothes. But the shops in those regions sold virtually nothing and the exiled needed the authorities' special permission for any kind of shopping. When the temperatures fell to minus 40C she was allowed to buy felt boots and a quilted jacket.
Production quotas (measured in cubic metres of wood) at war time were top heavy, only high-quality wood was paid for, and the wood in the marshy taiga was mainly bad, and it wasn't always possible to fulfil a quota.Relatively good pay started after the fulfilment of 40 quotas, and as the chiefs often changed the kinds of work for Euphrosinia she couldn't amass that quantity of quotas.
She had no money or clothes she could change for food. Euphrosinia started famishing. Even though everyone only thought of survival she still complied to the moral standards and shared with her countrymen everything she could.

Album 3. Section 1