Piotr Bozyk (Search)

Dear friends and visitors

My name is Bohdan Hnatyk.
I live in Ukraine.

I am writing to ask you about a very great favour. Could you help me please find information
about my uncle Piotr Bozyk (1912-1989). Maybe you knew him personally.

This site was created to search for information about my uncle Piotr Bozyk and friends to people who lived and worked with my uncle in the city of Kalgoorlie. Western Australia.

I and my mother Katherine Hnatyk (Bozyk)-his sister were looking for him during the long years. And now at last we were informed through Red Cross that he lived in Kalgoorlie. Australia. From information Local Government City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder my uncle because of old age, he moved into an aged Nursing home under the care of The Little Sisters of the Poor, an order of Catholic nuns in Kalgoorlie. During his final years and that his marital status was single. He died at the aged Nursing home in 1989.

I want to lescribe you the situation with Piotr Bozyk.

He was born in village Novosilki or near Yavoriv. Lviv, Poland (pre-WWII) in what is today Western Ukraine. He was born on May 1912.
Since 1942 the german fashists have compulsory moved out to forced labour into Germany. In 1945 we have got a letter that he is living and when he will go out so he will write to us obligator. But conditions were changed: our Ukraine must be found under the communist power in the Soviet borders were closed at so called "iron curtain" from the Western Countries.
In 1991 our Ukraine became an independent state and we decided to write a letter to the International Tracing Service and at last we got an answer that Piotr Bozyk lived in the town Kalgoorlie and died on the 7th June and was buried on 9th of June 1989 on the local cemetery in
the city Kalgoorlie. (Unfortunately he died). Piotr Bozyk (Requiem mass 9 June 1989 at St Mary's Catholic Church. Kalgoorlie). Saint Mary's Church, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia A requiem mass was held on the 9 June 1989 at St Mary's Catholic Church prior to his interment in the Roman Catholic Section of Kalgoorlie Cemetery - Crave 16039.

From the Red Cross information we knew that he during the period from 1945 till 1989 was alive. Unfortunately we could not meet with him after long years of separation. But we didn't know in how he lived in those years, was he married or no, has he children or no. We didn't know nothing about him and his life and didn't get letters. Nowadays we know nothing about him.
It is impossible that he lived a lot of years in exile in Kalgoorlie and hadn't no communication with somebody. He worked and had friends, that they knew him in Kalgoorlie. This information is important to our family. Last time we saw him in 1942. Unfortunately he died.
Dear friends, please help us to find information concerning Piotr Bozyk.

Photo Piotr Bozyk

Dear residents of Kalgoorlie

Families from Ukraine looking for information about uncle Piotr Bozyk. Could you help me, to provide information about the life my uncle in Kalgoorlie.

From the Red Cross information:

1949 - Post-war immigration to Australia. On board ship Anna Salen arrived in Fremantle on 23 August 1949. There were 1566 Displaced Persons on board the Anna Salen when it left Naples on 1 August 1949. The Anna Salen arrived in Fremantle on 23 August 1949. Most of the passengers disembarked and were transported by train to the Department of Immigration Reception and Training Centre, Northam.

1950-1989- he lived in Kalgoorlie. Brookman St 125.

During all of his working life in Kalgoorlie (1950-1977) my uncle Piotr Bozyk worked as fettler (a member of a gang who repair railway lines). He was employed by the Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR). He worked on the Railways in Kalgoorlie and lived with 3 other fellow railway workers and resided on Boundary Street, and later Brookman Street. Kalgoorlie.
Piotr Bozyk was living at the Little Sisters of the Poor, an order of Catholic nuns nursing home in Kalgoorlie during his final years and that his marital status was single.

7th June 1989- He died in Kalgoorlie. Buried in the Kalgoorlie cemetery.

Please help us to find information concerning Piotr Bozyk.

I am interested in:

1. Picture or a group photo my uncle Bozyk Piotr (and send me); (as he looked at old age);
2. About his life in Australia it is very important for our family. You must understand us.

Friend and acquaintances to contact us.

The information send me please on the address:

Bohdan Hnatyk
Sheptytzky St 1/179
Novoyavorivsk 81053
Lviv.Ukraine.

E-mail:Search-people@ukr.net

Telephon:380325645266

When it possible for you, please help me in these relations.


Sincerely

Bohdan Hnatyk

Ukraine

© Biographical-Documentary Project "Piotr Bozyk (1912-1989)"
http://search-people.at.ua/