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Walter Parfomak: An Immigrant Story

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The galleries below include images and commentary about key places and events in Walter Parfomak’s life, roughly in chronological order. Feel free to view them from the beginning or just skip and jump to the parts that most interest you. Click on any thumbnail to enter a gallery.

1824 — Berezno, the Ancestral Home

1894 — Birth of Nikifor Parfomuk

1914 — World War I in Berezna

1918 — Berezna in the Second Polish Republic

1920 — Polish-Soviet War

1922 — Nikifor’s Marriage and Farmstead

1926 — Extended Family in Berezno

1931 — Władysław and the Parfomuk Family

Antopol Before WW II

Kobryń Before WW II

1939 — Soviet Occupation and Annexation

1941 — Nazi Occupation, the Holocaust, and Flight

1943 — Forced Labor in Nördlingen, Germany

1945 — The Bombing of Nördlingen and War’s End

1945 — DP Camps in Germany

1948 — Augsburg and Bremen

1940s — Mikołaj Parfomuk

1949 — Emigration to the United States

1950s — Early Life in New York

1951 — Korean War Army Service

1953 — Becoming American

1958 — Brooklyn Polytechnic

1958 — Seeing America

1960 — Marriage and Family

2002 — Return to Berezna and Antopol

2019 — Walter’s Story Ends

2020 – Remembered in Nördlingen

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