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My Granny and I talked about her life and mine and stories about how we grew up.

Interviewing my dad for the Great Thanksgiving Listen

My dad’s coming to America was not as easy as I once thought. My dad, his parents, and his grandparents all immigrated from Russia/Ukraine to Cleveland, Ohio in the year 1997 because they were exiled. I’ve never heard this story...

Great great grandma Rose had to cross over from Russia to Lawrence when she was 8 years old.

Marvin talks about his ancestry, their immigration to America, and his experiences in the U.S. Air Force.

I interview my mother about her childhood and life in the Soviet Union.

Benji interviews his mother Marina about her experiences and her story during the cold war.

My dad was in the middle of the Cold War and had some things go wrong. He went to Russia for a school trip and listen to see what happens.

In this interview Elaine Mirzoyan talked about growing up in Russia, and how she became an American citizen.

How Aida’s relatives came to Argentina and how she met her husband

We talked about what her childhood was like.

Here my mom briefly goes through some of good and bad memories that brought her to learn and teach me a life lesson to help me succeed

Good time for the whole family

In this conversation, I talk to my dad, Vlad Orzhekhovskiy, about his life, his job, and overall got to know a lot of things I didn’t know about him originally.

Ksenia from Russia

This is an interview with my mom and some things she talks about is family and some of her struggles.

In this interview, conducted on Thanksgiving, 2015 in a suburb of Cleveland, Dylan Caine (16) asks his mother, Shelly Pesick-Caine (56), about her quintessentially American upbringing in the suburbs of Detroit. Born into a caring and hardworking family of six,...

Hi my name is ilan I am 14 years old it is November 22,2018 I am intervening my Mom today in queens N.Y.

I talked with my mother about her experiences growing up as a child, learning the difficult circumstances that she faced in terms of living under a communist state. We also discussed the impact that different people have had on her...

Everybody has their own story. For this project I decided to interview my grandmother. This storycorps project has benefited me because now I understand the challenges and all the hardships that my grandmother has gone through. My grandmother’s responses to...

Evan (13) interviews his grandmother about her relationship with her grandparents.

In this interview, recorded November 28 2022 in Denver, Colorado Ezri Peterson (15) interviews her grandmother Betty Peterson about the origins of her side of the family. Betty shares that her grandparents had come from Russia. She also says that...

My mother’s struggles with the fall of the Soviet Union and the wars in Georgia. Then the struggles she had with immigration and language barriers. Finally how she overcame them now.

Helene shares her story of how she and her mother survived the Holocaust by escaping to Russia. She tells her daughter, Alicia, how they had to sleep outside and scrounge for food scraps so they could eat, even though her...

Minnie Kahn, Bradley Kahn and Sharon Kahn reminiscing about her family coming to the US from Russia, and where they lived in Milwaukee.