Comments on: Lost in a Sea of Cobblestones: Lviv’s Historical Manhole Covers & Storm Drains

By: Barbara Urbanowicz

Barbara Urbanowicz — Sun, 27 May 2018 22:53:28 +0000

Thank you so much Areta I hope to visit in May 2019.

By: Areta

Areta — Sun, 27 May 2018 14:51:13 +0000

Very interesting that your grandfather was Inż Bolesław Słowik and thank you for sharing his fate and that of his family’s.
Yes, your grandfather’s products still exist in Lviv’s streets, for example, a storm drain on Ozarkevych St., and manhole covers on Prosvita St. and Venetsiana St.

By: Barbara Urbanowicz

Barbara Urbanowicz — Sun, 27 May 2018 01:22:18 +0000

My Grandfather was Inż Bolesław Słowik. His factory, still standing, was 94 Żółkiewska Street, Lwów. His family, wife Zofia and two daughters, my Mother Krystyna and the younger Haneczka, were bundled into a cattle wagon and transported into slave labour in Semipalatinsk , Kazakhstan. Grandfather Bolesław was arrested by the NKVD and kept for a year in Prison Nr 1 I. Lwów before being sentenced to a gulag in Kazakhstan. He and Haneczka died. My Grandmother and Mother ended up in the U.K.

I am so happy to have found photographs here of some of my Grandfather’s products. I wonder whether they still exist in Lwów’s streets and if so, where?