A Little Brief Background On The Family Farm By Sylvia...

Sylvia Bojcvuk, born to Alexander and Albina Bojcvuk on their family farm on January 19th, 1928 in Ukraine. Little did this young baby girl know she was about to endure a tragic, yet adventurous life that would impact generations. A little brief background on Ukraine at the time of Sylvia’s youth in 1941 Germany and Romania invaded Ukraine changing the country to Romania, then 1944 Soviet soldier’s invaded naming it back to Ukraine, which seems to come full circle to today with the constant battle of Russia attempting to merge Ukraine into Russia for good. Unfortunately, Soviet soldiers have a dark history of raping many of the young girls when they invaded Ukraine in 1944. Sylvia was sixteen at the time and her mother and father hid her in their local farm, this constant hiding lead to Albina decided they could no longer remain in Ukraine, which is the beginning of Sylvia Bojcvuk’s pilgrimage to a better life. The Bojcvuk family began by taking a train out of Ukraine, hoping to go South where both Sylvia’s older brother and sister currently resided, but the Soviet soldiers were blocking passage to the South so they had to go west, leaving behind Sylvia’s brother, Adolf, and sister, Eleanor. Unfortunately, Sylvia was never again reunited with her siblings. Adolf Bojcvuk later died of brain cancer in the 1980’s, and Eleanor Bojcvuk resides in Romania today in her ninety’s. Taking the train west, the Bojcvuk’s resided in Austria where Sylvia attended nursing school,