 In 1938 Jerzy Wolff did publish an enthusiastic review of Nikifor's art in the (Polish) "Arkady" monthly, and purchased some of his works.However, the advent of World War II prevented Nikifor from gaining much popular notoriety.In 1947 Nikifor was deported during Operation Vistula, where the Lemko and Ukrainian minorities were forcibly resettled by the communist puppet regime to northern and western Poland, away from their ancestral homelands in the southeast.