Szkirka Maria & George (Dmytro)

Leaving Ukraine did not mean leaving your cultural heritage. In the 1950s, the young Szkirka couple arrived in Geelong, Australia to join the Ukrainian Geelong community which has sustained its cultural heritage for over 70 years.

In 1924, George (Dmytro) Szkirka was born near Lviv in Eastern Ukraine. In 1941, he was a lad when the war broke out between the USSR and Germany; he was forcibly taken…