Andrzej and Kunegunda Wityk

Andrzej and Kunegunda (Mucha) Wityk lived in Siedlce, Nowy Sacz, Galicia at the turn of the 20th century.  They are my great grandparents.  Although I have no information on their birth, I have information that Kunegunda died in 1951 and Andrzej in 1952 and they are buried in Chorzelow, Rzeszow, Poland.

Andrzej might have served in the Austro-Hungarian military in World War 1.  Polish veterans and others were encouraged to re-settle in the Kresy, or Eastern Borderlands, of the new Republic of Poland starting in 1921 when the Treaty of Riga formally settled the Polish-Soviet War and established the eastern borders of Poland.  In any event, Polish koloniscy, or colonists, did move  to the "Wild East" of that era - in this case the area that was formerly Eastern Galicia.

They re-settled in Buczacz-Kolonia, perhaps also known as Mazury, about 400 kms east from the home they left in 1921(?). Their family eventually included 6(?) children:

  1. Kunegunda (1903-1978) (my grandmother)
  2. Wiktoria (1905??-1928)
  3. Wladyslaw (1913-2006)
  4. Frydryk (????-1944)
  5. Maria(1922?-1972)
  6. Janina (1924?-2005)

I am working with Lukasz Biniasz in Poland, a great-grandson of Wiktoria who is helping me put all this information together.  Many thanks, Lukasz.

-Lindy Marian Kasperski
11 March 2010