[1] Born Wolodymir Szczerbiak in a Ukrainian refugee camp in Hamburg, West Germany, he received a sponsorship from a Ukrainian Catholic Church to immigrate to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in December 1951.

Basil College, a Ukrainian Catholic minor seminary in Stamford, Connecticut, where he first learned to play basketball.

[2] Szczerbiak attended George Washington University, where he played college basketball.

[6] Szczerbiak won three EuroLeague titles with the Spanish League club Real Madrid (1974, 1978, and 1980).

Szczerbiak was born in West Germany to Ukrainian parents who met in a refugee camp,[which?]