Category: My Life & Times

            One of the men I remember in elementary school is Mike Meinsinger.  He and his father farmed the farm adjacent to the school.  This is one of the farms…

            I remember my first day of school.  It was a one room school taught by one teacher, Miss Ruth Kuglar.  [1] Today that school is a home.  We walked…

            I think now is the appropriate time to tell some of the things Pop told that happened in the Ukraine when he was growing up.  He told us how…

            When I was about two years old, Mom, John and I spent several weeks each summer on a farm near Locktown with Michael Antislko family.  We continued this practice…

            I remember the time my mother, John and I were sitting on the steps leading to our apartment in Brooklyn.  Mom told me that I was not yet two…

            When Mom arrived in New York, she was met at the port by her aunt Opiela with whom she lived for sometime.  Aunt Opiela had two daughters, Mary and…

I remember Pop telling us that he and three or four Ukrainian youths decided to see some of America before settling down.   They started by going west as far as…

Around 1929, our father received a letter from a nephew who had emigrated to Brazil.  He gave his address at that time as John Zefronova Zdebski, Prudentopolis Linka, Inahi N.59,…

            Mother was also born in Ukraine in the small village of Zvenyhorod to Safron Gula and Mary Zakaluk Gula. Zvenyhorod, is a short distance from Lviv.  Mom was named…

Anyone who was born in the Ukraine in years past when under the jurisdiction of other nations, was not recognized as a Ukrainian but rather was said to be a…