Wasyl Walter SAFTIUK

ABT 1890 - BEF 2013

• BIRTH: ABT 1890, Lenkowitz, Bucovina, now Ukraine
• DEATH: BEF 2013, Ukraine

• MARRIAGE: ABT 1912, Mamaivtsi, Ukraine

1.  Veronia SAFTIUK
2.  Marika SAFTIUK
3. +Wasyl Walter SAFTIUK

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[N6719] Bukovina (Ukrainian: Bukovyna; Romanian: Bucovina; German and Polish: Bukowina; is a historical region in Central Europe, currently divided between Ukraine and Romania, located on the northern slopes of the central Eastern Carpathians and the adjoining plains. From 1775 to 1918, Bukovina was an administrative division of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire, and AustriaHungary. After World War I, Bukovina became part of Romania. In 1940, as a result of the MolotovRibbentrop Pact, the northern half of Bukovina was annexed by the Soviet Union.

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Following the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, the June 1940 Soviet Ultimatum demanded from Romania the northern part of Bukovina, a region bordering Galicia (the latter annexed by the Soviet Union at 1939 Poland's partition in 1939). The Soviet demand for Bukovina surprised Nazi Germany, though it did not formally oppose it. In the first Soviet ultimatum addressed to the Romanian government, the partly Ukrainian populated northern Bukovina was "demanded" as a minor "reparation for the great loss produced to the Soviet Union and Bassarabia's population by twenty-two years of Romanian domination of Bassarabia". On 28 June 1940, the Romanian government evacuated Northern Bukovina, and the Red Army moved in, with the new Soviet-Romanian border being traced less than 20 kilometers north of Putna Monastery. In 1940, Chernivtsi Oblast (2/3 of which is Northern Bukovina) had a population of circa 805,000, out of which 47.5% were Ukrainians and 28.3% were Romanians, with Germans, Jews, Poles, Hungarians and Russians comprising the rest.[citation needed] The strong Ukrainian presence was the official motivation for inclusion of the region into the Ukrainian SSR and not into the newly-formed Moldavian SSR. Whether the region would have been included in the Ukrainian SSR, if the commission presiding over the division had been led by someone else than the Ukrainian communist leader Nikita Khrushchev, remains a matter of debate among scholars.[citation needed] In fact, some territories with a mostly Romanian population (e.g. Hertza Region) were allotted to the Ukrainian SSR. In the course of the 1941 attack on the Soviet Union by the Axis forces, the Romanian Third Army led by General Petre Dumitrescu (operating in the north) and the Fourth Romanian Army (operating in the south) re-occupied Northern Bukovina, as well as Hertsa district, and Bassarabia, during JuneJuly 1941. However, then it continued the war, and occupied during 19411944 proper Soviet territories in the south of Ukrainian SSRthe Odessa Oblast, and parts of Mykolaiv and Vinnytsia oblasts. During 19401950, major demographic changes occurred in northern Bukovina. These demographic shifts are explained by several separate but concurrent phenomena:

fleeing of a part of the population to Romania (mainly, but not exclusively, ethnic Romanians)
repatriation of Germans, Hungarians and Poles
systematic repression, mass deportation and exterminations by the Soviet regime (again mainly, although not exclusively, directed against Romanians)
deportation of the Jewish population by the Romanian authorities to the Transnistria Governorate.

In the first year of Soviet occupation, the population of the region decreased by more than 250,000. According to NKVD orders, tens of thousands of Romanian families were deported to Siberia during this period,[19] with 12,191 people deported on 2 August 1940 (less than a month after the occupation),[19] and another 2,057 persons deported to Siberia in December 1940, together with their families.[20] The largest action took place on 13 June 1941, when about 13,000 people were deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan.[21] Until the repatriation convention[citation needed] of 15 April 1941, NKVD troops killed hundreds of Romanian peasants of Northern Bukovina as they tried to cross the border into Romania in order to escape from Soviet authorities. This culminated on 1 April 1941 with the F©Ønt©Øna Alba( massacre. Almost the entire German population of northern Bukovina was coerced to resettle in 19401941 to the parts of Poland then occupied by Nazi Germany, during 15 September 1940 15 November 1940, after this area was occupied by the Soviet Union. About 45,000 ethnic Germans had left Northern Bukovina by November 1940.[22] This figure, higher than the size of the German minority, included also a couple thousand Romanians, Ukrainian, etc., posing as Germans to flee the Soviet rule.[citation needed] In July 1941, the new Romanian military government counted at least 36,000 missing persons.