My earliest ancestors are Oleksandr Kiebuzinski (b. ca. 1792-d. 18 April 1860) and Maria (née Dombrovska; b. ca. 1799-d. 5 Feb. 1861). Oleksandr studied at the Przemysl Gymnasium in 1808 to 1810. He may have worked in the gravel industry, as he, together with two other contractors, Hirsch Katz and Hirsch Atlas, were brought before the Przemysl District Court for breaking a contract to deliver loads of gravel to the city's regional road construction works. The notice for the hearing was dated 28 September 1829 (Gazeta Lwowska, 117 (12 Oct. 1829). Later he farmed land in and around Nehrybka, and was associated with house no. 28 there. Oleksandr and Maria had at least four sons and two daughters: Andrei (1820-1893), Ivan (1823-?), Maria (1830s), Anna (1832-1911), my great, great grandfather Iosyp (1835-?), Mykhailo (1837-1870/1871), and Julia (1841-?).
Andrei (b. 1820-d. 31 Aug. 1893) (see entry on Vereshchytsia).
Ivan (b. ca. 1823-d. ?) (see entry on Tuzhyliv).
Maria married Ivan Paczkowski (son of Fedir and Maria). They resided at house no. 35 in Nehrybka, and had several children:
Anna (b. 14 April 1857)
Pelagia (b. 20 Oct. 1859)
Oles (b. 6 March 1863)
Maria (b. 1 July 1865)
It is unclear how the following individual is associated with Maria and Josef Paczkoski, but he resided at the same address and may be Maria's younger brother. Fedir Kiebuz (b. ca. 1849-d. 22 Apr. 1909 (house no. 35)), also a farmer, married Anna Stec (b. 10 Aug. 1847-d. 3 Mar. 1931). They had at least one son and two daughters who lived and died in Pikulice: Ivan (b. ca. 1878-d. 21 March 1879 (house no. 35)); Kateryna (b. ca. 1886-d. 19 June 1909 (house no. 35)); and Eva (b. Apr. 1889-d. 23 Feb. 1890 (house no. 35)). Kateryna worked as a merchant. She had an illegitimate child named Petro (b. May 1909-d. 10 Dec. 1909 (house no. 35)). Fedir, his daughter Kateryna, and grandson Petro, all died within months of each other in 1909. Feodir’s and Anna’s other children immigrated to the United States, and settled in Glastonbury, Connecticut.
Anna (b. 13 Feb. 1832-d. 20 Oct. 1911) married Stefan Volynets (Wolyniec/Woliniec) (b. either 25 Jan. 1829 or 6 Sep. 1829-d. 1 Feb. 1914) of Blonie. Her husband was the son of Mykhailo Volynets and Maria (née Lenczyk). His godparents were Stefan Puszynski and Helena Demkowicz. Anna and Stefan had the following children: Maria (b. 11 Sep. 1854), Ivan (b. 20 Jan. 1856), Kateryna (b. 21 Sep. 1857), Fedir (b. 27 Feb.1860), Pelahia (b. 3 July 1862), Anna (b. 29 Nov. 1864), Rosalia (b. 27 Oct. 1867-1 Dec. 1950), and twins Petro (b. 2 July 1870-d. 27 July 1871) and Pavlo (b. 2 July 1870). The family's address was 133 Blonie (17 ul. Krownicka; today ul. Gen. Jakuba Jasinskiego). The children's godparents were: Vasyl Lavetskyi, Anastasia Dawidowicz, Ivan Hirczycky, and Ivan Tsok.
Annas and Stefan's oldest daughter Maria married Vasyl Danczak (b. 20 Jan. 1849) on 15 June 1873. He was the son of Mykhailo Danczak and Victoria Pawlowicz of 316, Podgorze.
Ivan, of 278, Blonie, married Anna Łobaza (b. 19 July 1859) on 28 October 1877 at the Greek Catholic Cathedral. She was the daughter of Petro and Pelahia Nehrebecka of Blonie.
Kateryna married Ivan Tsok (Cok) (b. 13 June 1856) on 13 February 1881, who was the son of Ivan and Pelahia Kiebuzinska (daughter of Ivan Kiebuzinski and Maria Fedun, formerly of 6 Wilce). The Tsok family with their surviving children Mykhailo (b. 25 May 1882-d. 7 June 1905), Dmytro (b. 3 Nov. 1883-d. 31 Dec. 1883), Vasyl (b. 21 Aug. 1885-d. 15 Oct. 1885), Maria (b. 28 July 1887-24 Nov. 1908), Hryhorii (b. 11 Feb. 1889-17 Aug. 1889), and Anna (23 Sep. 1890-6 May 1891) resided at 6 and then 10 Wilcze (ul. Sienna, today ul. Gen. Zygmunta Zielinskiego).
Fedir, 133 Blonie, married Julia Wawak (30 March 1869, daughter of Barbara Wawak), a Roman Catholic, on 18 February 1889 in Przemysl. He worked for the railway company.
Pelahia married Ivan Filts (Filc), son of Hryhorii and Rosalia, on 16 May 1885. He was postmaster in Przemysl. The Filts family resided at 41 Wilcze, with their sons Mykhailo (b. 20 Oct. 1888), Omelian (b.19 July 1890-d. 15 June 1962), Kostiantyn (b. 5 Sep. 1895), Volodymyr (b. 14 Sep. 1897-d. 25 May 1984), and Taras (ca. 1901-d. 17 May 1918).
Anna, 133, Blonie, married Wojtiech Jan Mikielski, Roman Catholic, a military officer in the Imperial-Royal artillery division in Przemysl (b. 28 March 1864, son of Mikolaj and Anna Duljan) on 3 August 1890 in Przemysl.
Rosalia, 133, Blonie, married Jan Ferdynand Wnetrzak, Roman Catholic, a canonist in the 1st Royal-Imperial Artillery (b. 23 June 1864, Krakow-d. 10 Feb. 1910; son of Wojiech and Winkentja Stopczewska), serving in the barracks in Przemysl, on 8 November 1890. Their children include (with the boys raised as Roman Catholics, the daughter as Greek Catholic): Jan (b. 9 Nov. 1891-29 May 1960, Przemysl), Wladyslaw Wojiech (b. 4 June 1898, Sambir-?), Helena (b. 24 Feb. 1900, Zolochiv-?), and Stanislaw (b. 11 Dec. 1907, Przemysl-?). The family resided alternately at ul. Krownicka, 15 and 17.
Pavlo Zenon, a railway warehouse worker, married Sofia Droczak in Przemysl. They had five children (the boys were raised as Greek Catholics and the daughters in the Roman Catholic rite). They all attended Primary School no. 8 in Przemysl; later, the sons went to the Ukrainian Gymnasium there: Zofia Kazimiera (b. 29 Oct. 1899, Przemysl-?), Bohdan Oleksander (18 April 1901, Przemysl-16 Mar.1970, Arlington, VA), Irena (b. 24 Nov. 1902, Stryi-?), Zenon Volodymyr (b. 2 or 4 Jan. 1904, Przemysl-?), and Adam (b. 22 March 1907, Przemysl-?). The family resided at ul. Krownicka, 15 and 17.
Mykhailo (b. 20 Nov. 1837, Nehrybka-d. 23 April 1871, Przemysl) married Anna Lenczyk (b. 20 April 1851, daughter of Ilia and Kateryna Henhalo of Zasanie, residing at 73, Przekopana), on 20 February 1870. He died soon after their marriage. His widow married again in 1871 to Toma Vyshnevskyi (b. 10 Dec. 1842).
Julia (b. ca. 1841) married 1) widower Anton Puszynski (alternative spelling Powszynski) of Blonie on 30 September 1860 in Nehrybka. Anton (b. either 27 July or 3 Aug. 1827-d. 14 Feb. 1880 (tuberculosis)) was the son of Stefan Puszynski and Maria Szostakowska-Dubak. They resided at 163 Blonie (21 ul. Krownicka; today ul. Gen. Jakuba Jasinskiego). Among their children's godparents were: Vasyl Levchak, Kateryna Lewicka, Anastasia Dawidowicz, Ivan Tsok, Mykhailo Radiak, Mykhailo Pajtasz, Stefan Serednicki, Victoria Torska (wife of Ivan Torski), Paulina Muszkiet (wife of Vasyl). Their children:
Mykhailo (30 Sep. 1862-28 Oct. 1862)
Anna (17 Dec. 1863) married Jozef Dombrowski (b. 16 March 1861) on 17 May 1885. He was a Roman Catholic, son of Casimir Dombrowski and Antonina Szostakowska of 128, Blonie. He worked as a bricklayer.
Kateryna (b. 10 Oct. 1866-1 Jan. 1867)
Vasyl (b. 12 Feb. 1868), married Anna Gengalo (b. 21 Oct. 1869, daughter of Wasyl and Anna Fedorovych of Przekopana) on 1 March 1891 in Przemysl.
Maria (b. 20 May 1870), 163, Blonie, married Oleksandr Sabarai (b. 8 Sep. 1860, son of Mykhailo and Pelahia Lenczyk) on 10 February 1889 in Przemysl
Kateryna (b. 29 Jan. 1873), 163, Blonie, married Iosyf (Josef) Lenczyk (b. 31 Dec. 1868, son of Mykola and Katerynak Ptak) on 7 February 1893 in Przemysl.
Ivan (b. 2 Feb. 1876)
Mykhailo (13 Nov. 1879)
After Anton's death, Julia had another child out of wedlock. Her daughter Pelahia died an infant (b. 14 Jan. 1883-d. 3 March 1883). The child's godparents were Ihnatii and Kateryna Czyzewicz. Julia entered a second marriage 2) Mykola Salamacha on 21 Feb. 1886. Mykola (b. 20 May 1837-d. 2 May 1893) was the son of Ivan Salamacha and Anna Hnatkowska of Tsykiv (Cykow). The witnesses were Ivan Wolyniec and Antonina Maruckiewicz. On Mykola's death, Julia married for the third time to a man 30 -years junior to her 3) Vasyl Iarosevych (Jarosiewicz) (16 Feb. 1873, son of Mykola and Pelahia Opalynska of Przekopana) on 23 February 1897. They were associated with house no. 64, Przekopana.
My great, great grandfather Iosyp (Joseph) Kiebuz (b. 27 Nov. 1835, Nehrybka) married Maria Balko (b. 18 Aug. 1838, Nehrybka-d. 12 Feb. 1924) on 27 January 1859. She was the daughter of Dmytro Balko and Eva (Eudokia) Gołdyra. Iosyp and Maria had a number of children, all born in Nehrybka, and associated with house no. 28: Stefan (b. 30 Dec. 1859-d. 23 Feb. 1860); Vasyl (b.3 Jan. 1861); Anna (b. 4 Dec. 1862); Oles (Ilya) (b. 12 March 1865-d. 23 Dec. 1865); Dmytro (b. 10 Dec. 1866); and Iosyp, my great grandfather (b. 22 April 1869-d. 28 Jan. 1938). According to family lore, one winter night their father, Iosyf the senior, left the house and did not return. His body was never found and it was assumed that wolves had killed and eaten him. His widow, Maria Balko Kiebuz, remarried a man named Ivan Kaszubinski / Kashubynskyi. They had three children together: Hryhorii (b. 11 Feb. 1877-d. 13 Sep. 1942); Maria (married Stepan Khrobak / Chrobak); and Kateryna (b. 1880) (in 1899, she married Ivan Treshnevskyi / Tresniowskyj (b. 19 May 1876, Nehrybka, son of Mykhailo and Maria Sawicka). Hryhorii Kaszubinski had four children: Dmytro, Stefan, Iosyp, and Kateryna. Maria (Kaszubinska) Khrobak had a son named Vasyl (29 Aug. 1904, Nehrybka-Aug. 1954, Kalush), a priest.
Iosyp (junior), my great-grandfather did not get along with his stepfather, Ivan Kaszubinski, and went to live with one of his father's brother, uncle Andrei Kiebuzinski, who was a priest in Vereshytsia, to the east of Yavoriv. However, he did maintain close ties with his two step-sisters, Maria Khrobak and Kateryna Treshnevska.
After reaching maturity, Iosyp the junior took possession of a property that had belonged to the family. It was the second largest farm in Pikulice. He married Anna Sanocka (b. 8 Dec. 1879-d. 30 July 1931 daughter of Ivan Sanotskyi (Sanocki) (b. 4 Oct. 1842) and Maria Velyka (Welykij) (b. 16 Aug. 1836)). They had nine children: Stepan, Mariia, Vasyl (died at birth), Vasyl, Ivan, Hryhorii (my grandfather), Olga, Joseph, and Volodymyr.
After reaching maturity, Iosyp the junior took possession of a property that had belonged to the family. It was the second largest farm in Pikulice. He married Anna Sanocka (b. 8 Dec. 1879-d. 30 July 1931 daughter of Ivan Sanotskyi (Sanocki) (b. 4 Oct. 1842) and Maria Velyka (Welykij) (b. 16 Aug. 1836)). They had nine children: Stepan, Mariia, Vasyl (died at birth), Vasyl, Ivan, Hryhorii (my grandfather), Olga, Joseph, and Volodymyr.
Iosyp served as a sergeant in the Austrian artillery. He was an outspoken Moskofil and was denigrated by local Ukrainian nationalists as a katsap (Source: Selianska rada v.1, no. 21 (11 Oct. 1907), and Peremyskyi vistnyk v.5, no. 24 (1 Dec. 1911). During World War I, he was imprisoned in Thalerhof concentration camp, near Graz, as a Russian sympathizer (Russophile). According to a memoir by a fellow prisoner, Ivan A. Vasiuta, Iosyp was sentenced to at least 15 months of internment (Source: Talerhhofskyi almanakh v.3, pt.1). In fact, Iosyf was arrested 3 August 1914, and with the 22 August transport to Linz was sent to Thalerhof. Iosyf appeared before a military court in Graz and was sentenced to 15 months in prison, the sentence was then revoked. From Thalerhof he was called up for military service, likely serving with the K.K. Landwehr-Infanterieregiment Graz Nr.3. (Sources: Communiques of the county starosta 3 August 1914 no. 319/pr. and 28 August 1914 no. 460/pr.; speech of deputy R.N. Chaikovskyi in Parliament 28 June 1917). In the starosta's roll of 22 January 1912 it is noted that he was a member of the Russka Druzhina[Russian brigade], a Russian sympathizer (Source: Mirovich, R.D., ed.Alfavitnyi ukazatel zhertv avstro-madiarskogo terrora vo vremia pervoi mirovoi voiny 1914-1918 gg. na oblastikakh Galitskoi i Bukovinskoi Rusi (Lvov, 1917).
Word was that after the war he changed his political outlook about the Russians. Even before the war he was a member of the Prosvita Society (from 1907) and, after the war, ended up sending all his sons to the Ukrainian gymnasium. Later, under Polish rule, he was a guard at the Ukrainian Army internment camp in Pikulice. All his life he considered himself to be a Rusyn although all his children identified themselves as Ukrainian. My father recollects his mother telling him that Iosyp used to wear a "pereyaslo" (a twisted braid of straw) instead of a belt to let every one know he was one of the people.
According to some family members, Iosyp was very tight with his money and his wife would filch money from him to give to her sons (cigarette money). She passed away of kidney cancer in 1931.
Iosyp’s and Anna’s children:
1st row (l to r): Vasyl, Stefan, Ivan.2nd row (l to r): Volodymyr, Hryhorii, Iosyf
Maria Kebuz (25 March 1896, Pikulice-4 May 1970, Ternopil) married Mykhailo Perkach (Perkacz). They had one daughter. In 1946, Maria and her daughter relocated from Poland to Soviet Ukraine, and lived for a while near Brody. Then in 1950 the family--Maria, sister Olha, and daughter--moved to Lviv where her daughter studied medicine. They stayed there until 1957, when they moved to Ternopil.
Vasyl Kebuz (b. 10 Apr. 1898-d. 13 Apr. 1898 in Pikulice) died in infancy.
Vasyl Iosyf Kebuz (b. 24 Feb. 1903, Pikulice-d. 19 Apr. 1974) completed Przemysl Ukrainian State Gymnasium in 1924. After finishing his gymnasium studies, he spent three years at the Ukrainian seminary, but left it when celibacy was established by the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Przemysl in 1924. He then went to work on the family farm. He inherited the farm after his father’s death—at that time the largest property in Pikulice. During the early 1930s, Vasyl headed the Ridna shkola and Prosvita societies in Pikulice. In 1937, Vasyl married a woman named Anna Rojiwska (b. 1913). Her uncle was a judge in Przemysl, for whom worked Vasyl's younger brother Iosyp, and he introduced them to each other. Their wedding was officiated by Rev. Ivan Kebuz. Vasyl and Anna had two children. Vasyl served in the Polish army at the beginning of the Second World War. In 1945 the Polish government confiscated the family property, and they relocated to Soviet Ukraine. They moved to the Klekotiv region, where Vasyl's wife's parents lived. There, the family experienced persecution by the NKVD for being kulaks (e.g. affluent peasants or independent farmers). Anna’s 80-year old grandmother and her sister-in-law with two small children were sent to Siberia. Under constant persecution, Vasyl moved from Klekotiv to Brody and worked at different jobs. He tried to get a job as a teacher of German language but the authorities did not allow him that kind of work. At some point Vasyl and his wife became separated, perhaps by the circumstances, and he continued to raise the children himself. According to his daughter, he was always sad and constantly worried that his children would not be allowed to get a higher education. In the early 1970s Vasyl moved to Iasinia to live with his son, then in January 1974 he went to live with his daughter in Turka. At this time he was already sick, and in April 1974, he died of lung cancer. According to his wishes he is buried in Turka, "as this was close to Pikulice, where he spent the best years of his life.”
Ivan Kebuz (b. 6 June 1905, Pikulice-d. 26 June 1941, Dobromyl) completed Przemysl Ukrainian State Gymnasium in 1925. Afterwards he served on the council of the cooperative bank “Vira” . He was ordained a Ukrainian Catholic priest on 30 March 1930, and served the following parishes: St. Ignatius Ukrainian Catholic Church in Horbachi, Rudky District (1930-1932); St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church in Majdan Sieniawski, Jaroslaw District (1932-1937); and St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Makova, Dobromyl District (1937-1939). On 23 June 1941 Soviet NKVD agents arrested him together with other Ukrainians. He was taken to a prison in Dobromyl where he was tortured for two days. His torturers cut out his tongue. He was executed on June 26 and his body was thrown into a ditch. There is a plaque commemorating him inside the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Przemysl (Source: Kozak, Mykhailo.Pom’iany, Hospody, dushi sluh tvoikh. (Peremyshl, 2002)).
My grandfather Hryhorii (Gregory) Kiebuzinski (b. 31 Jan. 1907, Pikulice-d. 31 Oct. 1943, Bibrka) was baptized on 31 January in Pikulice. His godparents were Stefan Kaszubinski, and Anna, wife of Andrii Dedio, farmers. At the time of his birth the family resided at house #16. He completed Przemysl Ukrainian State Gymnasium in 1926, and later obtained a Masters of Law. He married Volodymyra Koczyrkiewicz on 20 June 1936. They had one son, my father. Hryhorii worked as a gymnasium teacher and lawyer near Przemysl, in the town of Dubiecko. When the Germans advanced to Eastern Poland in 1939, he served as the town commissioner for a short time. From early 1942 to 1943, Hryhorii (Gregor Kiebus vel Kiebusynskyj) was working as a notary public in Bibrka (Source: Amtliches Fernsprechbuch für das Generalgouvernement (1942)), where he died in late October 1943 of appendicitis. He had served as a notary, assistant director of the rural-district delegation of the Ukrainian Central Committee's aid branch in Bibrka (in which he was very active), and a member of the auditing commission for the Notary chamber in Lviv (Source: Nashi dni, r.2, ch. 11 (Nov. 1943) and Krakivski visti,ch. 249 and 269 (6 and 30 Nov. 1943)). Obituaries for him note that he was a modest, well-liked man, an honest and hardworking lawyer, and excellent public speaker, who was very engaged in promoting the Ukrainian cause. Among those who paid their respects at his funeral and eulogized him were: Rev. Ivan Mashchak, a priest in Bibrka who had ministered to the Ukrainian Galician Army; Rev. Osyp Diakiv (b. 23 Feb. 1870 in Lviv, ord. 1893, d. 1949 near Peremyshliany), who served as pastor of Bibrka from 1933 to 1947; Dr. Kornel Vashchuk (b. 1893 in Hlibovychi Velyki, Bibrka district-d. 18 Nov. 1972 in Toronto), who was a lawyer, officer in the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, and served as mayor of Bibrka from 1942; Roman Kliufas (b. 1904 in Sambir-d. 29 Mar. 1982 in New Jersey), who as also a lawyer; and Lev Iatskevych (b. 8 Sep. 1907 in Stryi-d. 1995 in Philadelphia), who was an engineer by education, and a poet, and who during the war served as Head of the Relief Committee for Lviv District of the Ukrainian Central Committee.Shortly after my grandfather died, my grandmother and father fled the advancing Soviet Army to Austria, where they lived for about two and a half years, first in a Displaced Persons camp in Landeck, and then privately in Innsbruck. From Austria, they moved to Forli (near Rimini), Italy, where there was a a prisoner-of-war camp for servicemen of the Ukrainian National Army, and to whom my step-grandfather, Ivan Soroka (my grandmother's eventual second husband), a medical doctor, provided care. Together with the servicemen, my grandmother, step-grandfather, and father, were taken to England before moving to North America. In England, they lived in the village of Witcham. Ivan Soroka (b. 12 Jan. 1902, Florynka-d. 12 Dec. 1975, Bridgeport, CT; son of schoolteacher Stefan Soroka (Pavlo and Maria Kordyak) and Maria Bartoszeska (Ivan and Maria Krasicka)) worked as a doctor for the RAF Hospitals in Mepal and Ely where there were veterans of the Polish and Ukrainian armies. My grandmother worked for the jam factory Chivers. When they immigrated to the United States, they settled first in Brooklyn, and then in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Josef (Joseph) Kiebuz vel Kiebuzinski (b. 26 Feb. 1909, Pikulice-d. 19 Aug. 1986, Detroit,
Michigan) attended classic gymnasium at the Przemysl Ukrainian State Gymnasium from 1918 to 1927, and then began studies at Lviv University, and completed them by obtaining a Master of Law from Jagiellonian University in Krakow (17 October 1931). He began his legal apprenticeship at the court in Grodzisko, near Dynow. Afterwards, he worked as a coadjutor in the law firm of Dr. Stanislaw Cwikowski in Nowy Sacz, together with his classmate from the Jagiellonian University, Franciszek Cwikowski, who was Dr. Cwikowski's nephew. In Krakow, in March 1938, he passed the bar examination and continued working for the same firm in Nowy Sacz, but now as a fully qualified lawyer, until 1944. For his political and national views, he was arrested in 1939, and was interned at the Polish concentration camp Bereza Kartuska. The camp operated from 1934 to 1939. With the arrival of the German army in September 1939, he and the other prisoners were released. Josef was taken to labor camps in Germany in August 1944, and worked in Vienna until the end of the Second World War. He then relocated to Germany, and was at a Displaced Person camp near Munich. He studied at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Ukrainian Free University in Munich, under Professor L. Shramchenko, defending a doctoral thesis entitled "Suverenitet narodu v antychnomu sviti ta u Zakhidnii Evropi" (Sovereignty of the People in Western Europe) on 13 August 1946. He taught for the UNRRA University as a senior assistant and instructor (1946-1948), and lived at 42/2 Lucile-Grahn Strasse, Munich. While still in Germany, Josef attempted to contact Eva Kuzynych from the village Sielec (Source: Svoboda (5 July 1946). Josef married a German woman named Hedwig Anne (Hedy) (b. 17 Sep. 1923- ). They immigrated to the United States, with Josef arriving from Bremen, Germany, to New York City on 21 February 1948 aboard the ship Marine Tiger. His destination on arrival was 100 Grove Street, Glastonbury, CT. He and Hedy became naturalized U.S. citizens in Detroit, Michigan. In the States Josef first held a number of menial jobs, working in auto factories, in a bakery, and as a dishwasher in a restaurant. Despite these great challenges, he obtained a Master's degree in library science from the University of Michigan, and then worked as a cataloger of foreign-language material for the University of Michigan Law Library (1958-1959), Wayne State University Medical Library (1960-1971), and the Wayne State University General Library (1971-1979). He was a member of the American Library Association and the Medical Library Association. Josef and Hedy had two sons.His younger son recalls his father as someone who loved to read everyday, anything from history books to the daily New York Times, and who had an active interest in politics. Josef also liked to write and was working on a history of the Nowy Sacz region up to his death. He remembered fondly his days from the Przemysl Ukrainian State Gymnasium—learning Latin and Greek—as well as days spent trout fishing and swimming in the streams of the Carpathian Mountains with his brother Ivan. They shared a ritual of spitting on worms to bring luck with their catch.
Volodymyr (Wlodzimierz or Walter) Kebuz (b. 25 Dec. 1910, Pikulice-d. 12 Oct. 1999, Las Cruces, New Mexico) completed Przemysl Ukrainian State Gymnasium in 1929, and received a commercial degree from the Academy of Economics in Poznan in 1932 (Source: Akademia ekonomiczna w Poznaniu, 1926-1976 (Warszawa-Poznan: Panstwowe wyd-wo naukowe, 1976), p. 355). Later he continued his studies in pharmacology. Before the war, Volodymyr worked for the cooperative bank "Vira" in Przemysl. He, his wife Stefaniia (née Vasylkevych, b. 5 Jan. 1913-d. 14 Apr. 2000 in Las Cruces, New Mexico), and son, were displaced persons in Germany following the Second World War. Volodymyr, while a refugee in Germany, placed an advertisement in Svoboda looking for Iosyf, Senior, and Anna Smulka, both of Pikulice, near Przemysl. They were supposed to be living in Boston or the vicinity (Source: Svoboda (24 May 1946)). The family immigrated to the United States, arriving from Bremen, Germany, to New York City aboard the ship Marine Flasher on 3 August 1947. Their final destination on arrival was 100 Grove St., Glastonbury, CT (again, to stay with their Pikulice Kiebuz cousins). In the United States, Volodymyr received a degree in accounting and worked in that field until his retirement.
Olha (25 Mar. 1914, Pikulice-11 Feb. 2001, Ternopil) moved along with her brother Vasyl and sister Maria from Pikulice to Ukraine after the Second World War. She lived with her sister and niece in Ternopil until her death. From descriptions of family members she was a very kind person, and apparently was a talented writer, receiving at one point a letter of encouragement from Bohdan Lepkyi.
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