Krynica Zdroj is in the valley of the Kryniczanka stream, at the foot of the Parkowa mountain (741 meters), between the Sądecki Beskids and the Lower Beskids. The area was the land of the Lemkos, an ethnic group created due to the mixing of people of Polish, Ruthenian, and Wallachian origin. Nikifor’s mother was a Lemko.…