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Wojciech Augustyn

Birth
Poland
Death
20 May 1908 (aged 52–53)
Ivano-Frankivsk, Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivska, Ukraine
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Ivano-Frankivsk, Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivska, Ukraine Add to Map
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Wojciech Augustyn was born in the former Mazowsze Region of Poland, which is now the Mazovia Province. As a seasonal farm worker he met Matrona Wilczynski in Jezupol, Galicia (now Yezupil, Ukraine) and married there on 24 February 1881. He and Matrona had 11 children. They owned 50 acres of land which they farmed and also owned a butcher shop in Jezupol. Wojciech died at age 53. Church records state he died of asthma, but family lore says he died from injuries sustained in an accident working on his property. At the time of Wojciech's death the town was Jezupol, Poland, which was in Galicia. It became part of the Soviet Ukraine during WWII. I hired a Ukrainian researcher in October of 2014 and he found that the old part of the Polish cemetery at the old Roman Catholic Church in Yezupil, where he was buried according to church records on 21 May 1908, was destroyed or desecrated during WWII and no sign of a grave exists anymore. Ethnic Poles who were in Yezupil at the time of the transformation into the Soviet Ukraine were either killed or forced to leave by the Nazis and Russians- some to Siberia, others to western and southern Poland. There was also an attempt to erase all signs of Polish existence there, including the destruction of cemeteries. The area where the old cemetery was is now overgrown and untended. There is every reason to believe there was a headstone at the time of burial, but it is now gone.
Wojciech Augustyn was born in the former Mazowsze Region of Poland, which is now the Mazovia Province. As a seasonal farm worker he met Matrona Wilczynski in Jezupol, Galicia (now Yezupil, Ukraine) and married there on 24 February 1881. He and Matrona had 11 children. They owned 50 acres of land which they farmed and also owned a butcher shop in Jezupol. Wojciech died at age 53. Church records state he died of asthma, but family lore says he died from injuries sustained in an accident working on his property. At the time of Wojciech's death the town was Jezupol, Poland, which was in Galicia. It became part of the Soviet Ukraine during WWII. I hired a Ukrainian researcher in October of 2014 and he found that the old part of the Polish cemetery at the old Roman Catholic Church in Yezupil, where he was buried according to church records on 21 May 1908, was destroyed or desecrated during WWII and no sign of a grave exists anymore. Ethnic Poles who were in Yezupil at the time of the transformation into the Soviet Ukraine were either killed or forced to leave by the Nazis and Russians- some to Siberia, others to western and southern Poland. There was also an attempt to erase all signs of Polish existence there, including the destruction of cemeteries. The area where the old cemetery was is now overgrown and untended. There is every reason to believe there was a headstone at the time of burial, but it is now gone.

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