Sambron |
Eastern Europe and
My Search for Roots Index |
| 108 years after my grandmother Katarina
Korshnak (Korsnakova) emigrated to America, I've finally returned to
find her village. In 1900 Sambron was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Today it is back where it belongs in the Slovak Republic. |
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This is the location
of my grandmothers house, but not the same building. The village was
destroyed during WWII |
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I knew
that the buildings had been rebuilt since WWII, but I wanted to see
the land that my grandmother would have seen |
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I knew that the graves
of my family members had been destroyed by the bombardment of WWII, but I did find some family names in the cemetery (Korsnak & Dula) even if they are not related to me. Micak was the family name of my grandmother's first husband. I only recently learned that he was also born in Sambron. |
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As we left Sambron
we traveled through the villages of Bajerovce and Krasna Luka a few
km away. It was on the websites of Americans seeking their roots in these 2 towns that I first found mention of Sambron. So I wanted to see these villages as well. This is certainly a beautiful land. |
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