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Family History Videos
This is a series of
Bondarchuk Family History Videos which discuss the family
of Ivan John Bondarchuk and Johaska Jenny Adamiak.
Family
History Pictures
This is a collection of pictures of family
members over the years. Click on the link above and
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Family History Audio Tape
Jim Bondarchuk taped an
interview with his mother,
Johaska "Jenny" Adamiak Bondarchuk in 1975 where she recounts
her early life in Piorunka and the USA.
Operation
Vistula Reenactment
"Operation Vistula"
was a program to eliminate supporters of the
Ukrainian Insurgent Army from the south-eastern
territory of Poland. It is estimated that 141,000
people were forcibly relocated to the "Recovered
Territories" in western Poland. Piorunka's Lemko
people were a part of this group.
At 6AM on June 29, 1947, the
Polish army circled the village of Piorunka on all roads
and announced to the residents that they have 2 hours to
leave the village. Approximately 80 families were
relocated leaving only one family behind. All of Johaska's
relatives living in Piorunka were affected.
A film made in 2004 shows
the reenactment of this relocation in a typical Lemko
village. It is available here with English subtitles:
