 In her new documents "Iryna" was listed as the daughter of a Red Army officer killed early in the war.After the arrest of Natalia Shukhevych in 1943 by the Gestapo, Roman Shukhevych took Irene to the orphan shelter at the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Convent of Vasilianky in the village of Phylypove, near the township of Kulykiv in 30 kilometres from Lviv, where Irene remained until the end of World War II surviving the German occupation and Holocaust.In 1956 Irene sent a letter with her picture to the prioress of the monastery.