Walter Wladimierz Felix BUKOWSKI

7 SEP 1886 - APR 1974

• OCCUPATION: Studebakers, Laborer
  1942
• BIRTH: 7 SEP 1886, Lwow, Austrian PL
• DEATH: APR 1974, South Bend, IN

• MARRIAGE: ABT 1911, St. Joseph County, IN

1.  Wanda BUKOWSKI
2. +Eugenie BUKOWSKI
3.  Elizabeth BUKOWSKI
4. +Ludwig Louis BUKOWSKI
5. +Chester S BUKOWSKI
6. +Walter J BUKOWSKI

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[N3715] LWOW, Poland
First time the picture of a lion appeared on a seal of Galicko-Wolynskich Princes, Andrew and Lew III. The lion was in a territorial sign of Galicko-Wolynskiej principality. The first town seal with the picture of the lion is fastened to the parchment diploma of Lwow in 1359. The passant Lion was in the open gates with three embattlements. In 1526 the Polish King Zygmund confirmed the emblem formally. But after the audience of Lwow archbishop Solikowski with Pope Sixt V in 1586 the town obtained the right to use the papal emblem: a statant lion holding three hills and a star with eight rays. On the 6th of November 1789 emperor Joseph II confirmed the emblem of Lwow.

Short Description/History
Lwow is the capital of Halicz, Situated on the Podolian Plateau it passed the whole historical destiny through the ages sometimes even suffered from different awful distractions and captures. Its appearance, vital space, quantitative and national complement, business and culture of its inhabitants have been changed not only by centuries course but because of those historical continuous changes, which took place during the existence of the town. The finds of the stone tools testify about the human's appearance at the territory of Lwow 12.000 years ago. At 2 &1 Centuries BC in upper reaches of the West Bog and Upper Dnister occurred the formation of the pro-Slovenian and early-Slovenian tribes. The archeologists ascertained that one of the colonies of X-XIII centuries was settled down at the slope of the Castle Mountain and became the precursor of the city. According to the first recollection in the Halicz-Wolyn chronicle Daniel Romanowicz founded Lwow in 1256.

Old Lwow as the other old towns of the principality consisted of three parts:
* The ditynets on Lysa Hill, which is the inner town.
* The outer town (stretching as far as the Poltwa River).
* The prince town was being built up on the trade way, which linked up the Black and Baltic Sea and went through Halicz-Lwow-Cholm. The buildings were made by Byzantine-Romaine and in most cases made from the wood.
The Lwow core is the city of the 14th to 18th centuries, which were built up. It has the rectangular market square and the city hall stands at the centre of the street grid, encircled by broad green boulevards at the site of the old walls. At the end of XVI century Lwow was densely dressed in the stone buildings, many of them in their original styles. These new buildings were decorated by Renaissance ornaments, galleries, etc. First of them were Italian Renaissance. At the atmosphere of Lwow all the monuments to the past gained extremely interesting, amazing and distinctive features.

Next years were full of new creating and developing styles by Lwow nature and spiritual richness. Baroque, Rococo, Classicism, Empire, neo-Romanesque, neo-Gothic, Secession and Modernism, the variety of Lwow architecture styles, they make you fall in love with the city.
Time Line of the City

* 1256 - Founding of Lwow.
* 1340 - Captured by the Poles, it remains under the Polish rule until late 1700's.
* 1772 - During the Partition of Poland the City passes to Austria-Hungary and becomes the capital of the province of Galicia.
* 1914 to 18 - Ferocious bitter fighting takes place in and around the city during First World War.
* 1919 - After the end of WWI and the bitter fighting with Ukrainian forces the City once again returns to Poland
* 1939 - During World War II Lwow was seized by Soviet Troops.
* 1941-1944 - The City was occupied by the German Army.
* 1945 - The City became part of the Ukrainian SSR, it was ceded by Poland to the USSR, during this time the city was named Lvov.
* 1991 - Ukraine became independent, the city's name was changed to Lviv.

WLADIMIRUS [AKA WALTER / FELIX] BUKOWSKI
Nat Intent Vol 20 p 138; # 3288, field 20 May 1918; dated 29 Oct 1923; b] 7 Sept 1886 Akomawice Poland. Emigrated port of Bremen 10 Sept 1907; arrived port of New York 24 Sept 190 on vessel Kizer Wilhelm. Natrualized 6 Feb 1927 as VLADIMIER E BUKOWSKI Wife: Mary Helen Mucha.