Bohdan S. Polanskyj

Bohdan S. Polanskyj Bohdan was born on March 26, 1928 in Lviv, Ukraine, the oldest of two sons to Ukrainian Parents, Ivan Polansky and Anna Polanska (nee’ Kulchitska). During World War II, he lived under Nazi occupation and after the end of the war, he lived in the Kaserne-Freiman refugee camp near Munich. He immigrated to Argentina in 1948 and ultimately to the United States through Charleston in 1960. In 1964, he married Maria Osinska and took up residence in New Jersey where they raised three children together: Odarka, Bohdan A. and Peter. Bohdan was trained as a Chemist in Argentina, and worked as a researcher and inventor, was granted multiple patents during his time at Witco corporation and enjoyed the final years of his work life at NJIT as a master machinist. His lifelong hobby of photography won him many awards in his beloved nature photography and accolades of his peers at Vailsburg Camera Club and the Ukrainian Photographic Society. Bohdan documented much of Ukrainian American Diaspora life in New Jersey and in retirement he published many collections of Ukrainian Churches in the USA and Canada. Bohdan is survived by his three children, Odarka Polanskyj Stockert, with her husband Thomas, and children Sophia and Oliver, Bohdan A. Polanskyj, with his wife Mimi and children Alexander and Izabelle, and Peter Polanskyj, with his wife Stacey, and children Cassandra, Madeline, Damian and Lindsay, all from New Jersey. He is predeceased by his wife, Maria Polanskyj (nee’ Osinska) and his brother George Polansky. Viewings will be held on Friday, May 20, 2022 from 2pm to 4pm and from 630pm to 830pm at Union Funeral Home, 1600 Stuyvesant Avenue, Union, NJ. The funeral mass will be held at 10am on Saturday, May 21, 2022 at Saint John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church, 733 Stanford Avenue in Newark, NJ, followed by a burial at Saint Andrew Ukrainian Cemetery, 240 Main Street, South Bound Brook, NJ. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the UNWLA SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM, PO BOX 24, Matawan, NJ 07747-0024 with a notation “In Memory of Bohdan S. Polanskyj” or to support the UNWLA Humanitarian Efforts in Ukraine via this link UNWLA