Woroniecki Romanowski families Beresteczko/Berestechko

[Ania778]

Hello, I think this forum is wonderful and has a wealth of information. Thank you to whoever set it up.

I am trying to find any relatives of my late father. My father was born Polikarp Woroniecki in Beresteczko/Berestechko on 14th March 1918. His mother, my grandmother (born circa 1880, birthplace unknown), was called Marta Romanowska and my grandfather (born circa 1870) was called Focjusz Woroniecki (a furrier). My grandparents had four children including my father. They had two elder sons one of which was called Stefan and Jeremiusz and a daughter Zofia. The daughter was slightly older than my father and died in childbirth circa 1937, having married a man who was also called Woroniecki. She had two children and both died. Focjusz Woroniecki died around about 1921. His death was caused due to an injury caused by a horse. My grandmother died in approximately 1933 from an infection. The family religion was Orthodox. Stefan Woroniecki had a furrier business in Berestechko before the war and Jeremiusz Woroniecki had a farm and sold food produce. Both businesses should be recorded in official records. My father ended up in a Siberian labour camp during WWII and never regained contact with his family. He did check on them through the Red Cross and found a cousin called Wyszinski was alive somewhere in Soth America (Brazil or Argentina).

I have contacted various archive offices (in Warsaw, Moscow, Kiev and lastly Lutsk). I keep getting redirected to yet another archive office by each. I would like to try tracing relatives through Parish records but do not know where to start as many websites are in Ciryllic script. I am hoping that my father was not the only survivor. Any help or advice would be much appreciated.

Kind regards,

Ania

[Hannia]

selo/village Berestechko> Horokhivskij raion/district> Vohlynska Oblast/Region> UA 45765

1.Wohlyn/Vohlyn GC & Orthodox registers are also in LVIV HISTORICAL ARCHIVES. Have you received a response from Lutsk yet?

2.Father's birth certificate can be obtained from RAHS in Horokhiv.

3.Documentation of Father's arrest, charges and deportation to Siberia records are in Vohlynska Oblast Archives.

4.There is a Memorial Book for those who died in WW2 from Vohlyn (Wohlyn spelling used by LDS) Oblast. Names are alphabetical by district, then by town,village. These are available on microfilm thru LDS/Mormon Library.

Where did Father emigrate after his stretch in Siberia?

Ania, in what country do you reside?

I will provide you w/addresses to all above in next day or so.

[Ania778]

Hannia,

Many thanks for the response and the very useful information.

In answer to your questions, I have not yet received a response from Lutsk but I only emailed them the other day so I hope that this time it will be good news.

My father ended up in a German Prisoner of War camp in 1944 and was liberated by the Americans at the end of the war. He then served in the Polish division of the American army in Germany until 1948, when he was granted residence in the UK. He remained in the UK for the rest of his life. I was born and live here too. I have documentation from his liberation onwards.

I also have information from my mother as to his arrest and adventures in the Soviet prison system. He was twice arrested for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The first time in 1939 he had a piece of paper in his pocket on which he had only just drawn a map showing directions for someone who wanted to know where a station was. He was arrested for being a spy and was led away to be shot for this! He was locked up prior to shooting together with a nun, the town mayor, chief of Police and other town officials. Fortunately for them all the Germans started an air raid and everyone escaped. He then somehow managed to get forced into joining a Soviet labour camp. Again he escaped and this time he was arrested trying to make his way back to his home town probably with no papers. This time he was not so lucky and was sent to Siberia.

I am planning to try the Mormon resource centre as I have found one in London. I would be intereted in seeing the memorial book you mention.

Anyway, many thanks again for your help with this.

Kind regards,

Ania

[Ania778]

Hello, does anyone know how can I translate cyrillic place names and surnames? I have had a reply from the Archives in Luck but it was in Ukrainian. I managed to translate most of the text using an online dictionary but some words cannot be translated. Has anyone had a similar problem?

Ania

[forest]

I have been to Berestechko .Funnily enough we drove by it 3 weeks a go to a place near Lutsk called Kivertsi where I have relations . My auntys village Hrymailivka[next village after Lishnev] is an hours walk from Berestechko . Berestechko is the site of some big battle over a million dead during Khmelnitskys time ,It also has a museum to commemorate the battle one of the exhibits is a glass case full of human skulls .
Berestechko today has a Saturday market and when I first went there about 11 years ago I was on my bike not wanting to leave my bike unattended I asked an old woman if it would be alright to leave it in her back garden and I would pay her ,she said ok , On my return she refused to take any money and invited me in the house for a drink of Vodka and a sandwich , she said I was the first Englishman she had ever met and was itrigued with my pidgin Ukrainian way of speaking very friendly people in my experience.

Its not a big place a few shops and Bars about the size of a small Market town in England.
Just thought you might be interested thats why I posted sorry I cannot help in your tracing of your dad. All the best.

[pmoski]

Hi can you help Im new to this site. Im looking for my father ,s family in Beresteczko Ukraine. can you tell me who to conntact and where, his name is Eliasz Ryzanowski, his parents are
Dymitra Ryzanowski and Helena (nee Zborowska ) thank you . Pmoski

[Victor_Lviv]

Originally Posted by pmoski

Hi can you help Im new to this site. Im looking for my father ,s family in Beresteczko Ukraine. can you tell me who to conntact and where, his name is Eliasz Ryzanowski, his parents are
Dymitra Ryzanowski and Helena (nee Zborowska ) thank you . Pmoski

Accessible (quite out-of-dated) Ukrainian databases search shows 1 Ryzhanovskyi and 8 Zborovskyi family names in Berestechko, you may try to write letters:

Рижановський Олексій Антонович (2.01.1948)
№24 , вул. Богдана Хмельницького
м.Берестечко, 45765, Україна / Ukraine

Зборовська Ніна Никонівна (2.02.1926)
№18 , вул. Максима Горького
м.Берестечко, 45765, Україна / Ukraine

(this Zborovska lady is oldest among eight found).

BTW - what is birthyear of your father?.. - Do you know - which year he left Ukraine?.. - Was he Orthodox - or Roman Catholic?
Both Orthodox and Roman Catholic metrical books from Berestechko are in Lutsk archives, some probably also may be found in Horokhiv (raion=district administartive center) RAHS (civil registry offices). Would you be interested in archival genealogy research (to find names of possible father's siblings) - or researching visit to Berestechko (to find your possible relatives there) - I can do it for you, contact e-mail: lvivtravel@yahoo.com
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