My grandfather, Jozef Kodyra, was born July 7, 1913, in New York. His birth in America made him a U.S. citizen. In 1921, when he was still a young child, his family moved to Poland to build and grow their family farm. My grandmother, Helena Sudol, was born February 2, 1917 in Wiltschawola, Poland, where she too lived on her family farm. They married in 1937 and lived in several towns in Ukraine and Poland. They finally settled in Malynsk. My grandparents had five children. Three of them, Gene, Chester, and Josephine, were born before World War II. My grandfather worked with his father on...
My grandfather, Jozef Kodyra, was born July 7, 1913, in New York. His birth in America made him a U.S. citizen. In 1921, when he was still a young chi...