Frank Pokrywfka

1889 - 1965  (75 years)

• Name	Frank Pokrywfka
  Born	1 Dec 1889	Rzeszon, Galicia, Austria
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1963	79 Strange St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-143930
  Died	1965	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Buried	Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I143930	Generations
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	Valentine\Walenty Pokrywka,   b. CA 1860, , Poland ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Maria Procknik,   b. CA 1860, , Poland ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F223977	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catherine Trafidlo,   b. 1896, , Austria ,   d. 1975, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 79 years)
  Children	1. Antony Pokrywka,   b. 1916, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 14 Jun 1916, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 0 years)   2. Stanley James Pokrywfka,   b. 5 Aug 1916, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1 Feb 1998, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 81 years)   3. Frank Pokrywka,   b. 1918, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 20 May 1919, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 1 years)   4. Mary Pokrywfka,   b. 6 Apr 1919, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. John Leo Pokrywfka,   b. 1 Oct 1920, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 18 Nov 2008, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 88 years)   6. Paul Pokrywfka,   b. 21 Nov 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 24 Feb 1945, , Germany  (Age 23 years)   7. Victoria Theresa Pokrywfka,   b. 26 Mar 1923, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   8. Helen Pokrywfka,   b. 8 Nov 1924, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 27 Jun 2014, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 89 years)   9. Albert Pokrywfka,   b. 1927, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 19 May 1927, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 0 years)   10. Gerold Pokrywfka,   b. 17 Apr 1932, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 10 Apr 1932, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   11. Harry Pokrywfka,   b. 10 Oct 1933, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 10 Dec 2010, Miami, Miami-Dade, Florida, United States  (Age 77 years)   12. Betty Delores Pokrywfka,   b. 25 Dec 1934, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 22 Dec 2012, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 77 years)   13. Yvonne D. "Bonnie" Pokrywfka,   b. 18 Jun 1937, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Dec 2014, Miami, Miami-Dade, Florida, United States  (Age 77 years)
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2025
  Family ID	F225005	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Separated 55 Years, Sister Sees Brothers A 60-year-old Polish - born woman who spent five years in a forced labor camp under the Russians finally met her two Kitchener brothers over the weekend - after 55 years. "It's the happiest day of my life," smiled Frank Pokrywka, 73, of 79 Strange St., one of the brothers. "It's wonderful," said her other brother Vincent Pokrywka, 70, of 42 Moore Ave. "We ,are all getting old and I never thought we would ever see each other again." The trip to the .United States to see her son and to Canada to see her brothers has been a life-long dream for Mrs. Rudolf (Eva) Rauth. It only began to take shape eight years ago when she started to save for the trip. KEPT IN TOUCH The two brothers left Poland when their sister was five years old. They have kept in touch all through the years, except for a 10-year period during and immediately after the war, when they lost contact with her. The loss of contact wasn't surprising since the German and Russian invasions of Poland resulted in her family fleeing from one end of the country to the other. In 1939 Mrs. Rauth fled with her four children from Russian occupied Poland into German-occupied Poland. In 1943 when the Russians started advancing, they attempted to :flee deeper into Germany. But the Russians caught them and on their return to Poland, she and her two sons, one eight and the other 11 years old, spent the next five years in forced labor working in the fields for as long as 15 hours a day, seven days a week. "Occasionally we would get a Sunday off," she said. LOST CONTACT Meanwhile, she had lost all contact with her husband, a German, who had been captured by the Russians. It was only in early 1950 she was allowed to enter West Germany. There she was reunited with her husband who had been just released by the Russians. But talk of war and hardship vanished over the weekend as all the Pokrywka relations gathered at 79 Strange St. to celebrate the reunion in typical Polish style. Mrs. Rauth will now spend a holiday in Pittsburgh, Pa., with her son, Stanley, before returning to West Germany, whey she and her family now live. Kitchener-Waterloo Record 8 Jul 1963

  
  

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  Died - 1965 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth