Walter M. Podugurski was born September 14, 1947 near Flossenburg Concentration Camp in Bayreuth, Germany as a resident of the American-occupied displaced persons camp. He was of Russian-Polish Catholic origin. His mother, Margarita Podgurskyj (b. November 26, 1912) and father, Wolodymyr Podgurskyj (b. July 21, 1912) were from the former Galicia Euro, Soviet Union (Polish Galicja). His paternal grandparents were Michael Podgurskyj and Anastasia Nahrebetzka, also of Galicia Euro, Soviet Union.
After World War II and presumed survival of Nazi displacement, Wolodymyr (a farmer) and Margarita (a bookkeeper) lived in the resettlement camp. The little family of three immigrated to the U.S. on August 11, 1949 from Wildflecken, Germany when Walter was one year old. Their passports listed Skillman, New Jersey as their intended destination. But it appears that they resided in the Queens borough of New York, instead. On December 14, 1956, Wolodymyr and Margarita established American citizenship in the Southern District of New York.
Walter was preceded in his death by his father, by then renamed Walter, Sr., on May 15, 1994 in Astoria, NY. Walter's mother passed away on September 10, 2004. Both of these deaths listed the same address as son Walter's at the time of his death, 3611 31st Avenue, Apartment 3G in Astoria, NY. Burial locations of the parents is not known.
Walter was the victim of negligent homicide on early Sunday morning, August 5, 2018, according to police reports and both the New York Post and New York Daily News editions of that same day. Podgurski was 70 at the time and fell down a flight of stairs during a physical altercation between multiple men at Beach 113th St. and Rockaway Beach Blvd. in Rockaway Park. He passed away at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital on August 5.
It is not known whether Walter had siblings during his lifetime.
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