Leaving home

By Reynolds, John

Subjects: Philanthropists, Biography, Biographies, Businesspeople, biography, Hommes d'affaires, Businessmen, Ukrainian Canadians, Ukrainians, canada, Philanthropes, Canadiens d'origine ukrainienne, Canada, biography

Description: "Petro (Peter) Jacyk survived two of the most horrendous events of the twentieth century: the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s, instigated by Stalin and responsible for the deaths of untold millions and waves of invasion and slaughter from Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. Fleeing post-war Europe in 1949, he arrived in Canada with $7 in his pocket and horrific images in his memory.