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Eric Yoder interviews Marjorie Comer about her family's German immigration and her childhood in California.

An amazing interview with my Tante Kay. I’m glad to be able to have this with her.

Katja (43) talks about growing up in Germany, moving to the United States, and her experience stranded in Canada during 9/11.

An interviewer interviews a German immigrant named Alice.

German man in an American lifestyle.

In this interview, conducted in November 2018 in Egg Harbor Township, NJ, Michael Ormond interviews his Grandpa Helmut Rojewski after thanksgiving. Rojewski was from Poland then moved to Germany and finally the US. They discuss the struggles he had when...

This is an interview about Hannah's history. She talks to her birth mother about her past and life.

During the interview Mitzi's daughter interviewed her about important people in her life and story's about her daughter.

We talked about my grandma’s family’s immigration story. We wen trebly in-depth into the Italian side of the family.

This is my uncle Dag, he was born in Germany. He is one of the sweetest, most fun people I know.

Ellie Bryan (21) talks to her friend Jeanne Boutang Croud (59) about her upbringing in Minneapolis and her racial identity - her mother is white, her father is biracial. Ellie is usually assumed to be white by people.

In this interview, conducted on November 26, 2019 in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, Al Ziegler interviews his teacher and mentor Matt Guenther(52) and Matt's husband, Greg Ferree(51). The couple shares about fond college memories together, their friendship before they...

My husband talks about his grandparents and parents and how their culture has influenced his own personal culture.

Mary “Marchie” Ethel Luther (87) talks with her great nieces Deanna Fletcher (24) and Andrea Fletcher (22) about her Prussian heritage and work as a cytotechnologist.

Mike, 32, interviews his father, Douglas, 58. Inspired by a sudden increase in their family through Mike’s engagement with a woman with a son, Douglas talks about his grandparents and about being a parent.

Walter R. Zurasky, born and raised in Pennsylvania, talks about his life from childhood, living on a farm, to meeting his loving wife at Clarion College.

Lori Bruggman Rausch, 67, tells husband, Jim Rausch, 68, about her life growing up in North Dakota and Minnesota. They discuss their decades-long marriage and the many moves the family made due to Jim’s career as a Kimberly-Clark executive. They...

Vesterheim Museum immigration history questions

Grandson Frankie Annerino (17) interviews Grandmother Marlene Annerino neé Gerber (82). They talk about her family and her life in Chicago.

This was a 12 minute interview with my grandfather, Doug Witzigreuter. Papa is my Dad’s dad and he was born in 1944. We disused topics ranging from his childhood to his job history and his parents.

I interview my father on his experience when the Berlin wall fell.

I talked to my great uncle Daniel Pankratz about his life, loved ones, and memories in the city of Chicago.

This effected her as a person knowing what it’s like to live in another place and how it can be harder.

In this interview, on November 25 at my house in Birmingham, Alabama, I interviewed my mom about her family history and how certain historical events affected her. She shares how 9/11 affected her and what her favorite historical figures are....

Little girl in a big family grows up in Minnesota. Goes into nursing gets Married, moves to Richmond Virginia and gets a big family of her own.