heir cache was exhumed 24 June 1999, near the Hutsul village of Yavoriv, in western Ukraine's Carpathian Mountains. The Kishchuk family was restoring some outbuildings on a hilltop farm, formerly the property of Palii Mytskaniuk. He disappeared after the Soviets discovered he supported the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Later his wife was deported. Neither returned.
As Hanna removed remnants of a drying shed, leveling the surrounding turf, her hoe snagged two glass jars. The contents of one were decayed. The second held 216 celluloid negatives. Her son, Petro, seeing the Ukrainian tryzub, a trident, on the cap badges of soldiers visible on this developed film, identified them as members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.