*** Chciuk Family





Polish family 1920s
Figure 1.--Here we see the Chciuk family in Drohobycz (Drohobych) around 1921. Drohobych in Ukrainian (Drohobycz in Polish). It is hard to imagine a more land-locked area of Europe, but the boys all wear matching sailor tunics. One might guess the stripes were blue. Note the close-cropped hair cuts.

Chciuk Family (Poland, early 1920s)

Here we see the Chciuk family in Drohobycz (Drohobych) in the early 1920s, probably 1921. It is hard to imagine a more land-locked area of Europe, but the boys all wear matching sailor tunics with long short pants. They were probably hand sewed by mother. Note that the stripes are vertical on the dickies. That was not common and an indication tht the outfits were home sewn. One might guess the stripes were blue. The boys all have close-cropped hair cuts. Their sister wears a white dress with ruffles. Her hair is cut in bangs. All the children are barefoot. We think that was quite common at the time. I'm not sure how to assess the family's social status, but the fact that the boys are wear fashionable matching outfits, we suspect that they might have been reasonably comfortable. Drohobych in Ukrainian (Drohobycz in Polish) is a city of about 80,000 inhabitants (2005) in Lviv region of Western Ukraine. This area is in the North Carpathian foothills, 60 km south of Lviv. Before World War II the population was about 40,000 people. They were about 30 percent Ukrainian, 30 percent Polish (Roman catholic) and 30 percent Jewish. The Chciuk family was Polish. The area had been part of the Russian Empire, but in a war between the Bolshevicks and new Polish Republic (1919-21), the Poles succeeded in establishing their independence and securing large areas to the east of central Poland where Poles were a minority, this included areas of modern Lithuana, Bylorusia, and the Ukraine.







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