ID cards of the interwar period. Photo
The ID cards certifying the person’s Polish citizenship were as follows:
Temporary ID cards, interwar period. Photo
Temporary ID cards were used to move from one place to another.
Passports for travelling abroad of the interwar period, Volhynia. Photo
During the interwar period the migration of Volhynia population abroad was rather active. For this purpose it was necessary to issue a passport for travelling abroad, which was valid for one year, as a rule.
Similar shell casings from the WWI are found on Volyn fields today
They are more than a hundred years old: these shell casings from the First World War can be still found in Volyn fields. Volyn, Ukraine, 2016
A communication agent of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (ukr. UPA ) Yaroslava Borys told us about her 15 years of Soviet camps. Ternopil region, 2016
A great number of metrical books are still stored in churches
Metrical books can also be found in churches.This is how Greek Catholic churches in Ternopil Region look like. Church in the village of Bajkivtsi, 5 km from Ternopil, Ukraine
House of Volyn Voivode
In such villas lived the leaders of the local Polish administration during the interwar period. The house where the Volyn voivide Henryk Juzewski lived. The city of Lutsk, Ukraine. Today the building houses the city department of education.
Abandoned Orthodox Cemetery, Poland
Cemeteries are an important source for genealogical researches. Abandoned Orthodox cemetery in Suhava village, Włodawa County, Lublin Voivodeship. August 2019
This is how genealogical research begins
You need to look for your roots on other shores, in other countries. Banks of the Western Bug river – the Polish-Ukrainian border in Volyn. August 2019
The best discoveries are on the border, especially on the Polish-Ukrainian one
Talk about the interwar period with Mrs. Anna Kukharuk (born 1927) in the village of Zabuzhya, Lyubomlsky district, Volyn region. August 2019