Man is Wolf to Man

Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag by Janusz Bardach and Kathleen Gleeson, University of California Press, 1998. 

Deporation of the Poles Eastward

Janusz Bardach was a Polish Jew who joined the forces of the Soviet Red Army in Belarus during World War II to fight the Nazi invasion, He lost the tank he commanded because he forgot to close the hatch before he crossed a river. He was arrested by the KGB for this mistake and courtmartialed. Instead of being executed, he was sent by train across the Soviet Union to a forced labor camp in Kolyma in the Far East. He worked there as a gold miner in the extreme cold. He later managed to get a job as a medic. He eventually came down with tuberculosis himself. In order to survive, he had to do some immoral actions, causing innocent fellow prisoners to suffer. He managed to survive World War II and obtained his freedom after the end of the war.