Justina Stepanovna Benio-Komar was born September 27, 1930 in the southern Polish village of Vola Ceklynska

I don't recall how we found out we had to leave Poland because I was just a child at the time. The only thing I really remember about it all is that we had to travel an awful long time. They sent us to the Dnjepropetrovsk region in Ukraine. Getting there took us more than a week. With us we had the cows, the horses, animal feed, our clothes and some food.

When we finally got to to the Dnjepropetrovsk region in Ukraine they put us up in some old shack with holes in the roof. When it rained there was a great deal of water in the house. Later on they alloted us a better house.

Our father worked as a beekeeper there on the collective farm, so we always had plenty of honey to eat. Then came a period of acute famine in eastern Ukraine and people began to leave, trying to return home. But they wouldn't let us cross the border into Poland.

So from the Ukraine-Polish border we returned to Lviv. All the families that were in our situation began to look around in all the settlements in the Lviv area for any kind of old buildings that could be used as shelter.

We came to Pustomiti, where we have been ever since.