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My dad’s story of how culture, religion, and more impacted his journey from Indonesia to the US.

This interview consists of my mom's life in Pekanbaru, Indonesia, and how she was the first in her family to get a higher education than high school after making the trip to America.

Grandson interviews grandfather about immigrating from Communist Vietnam to America and about family history.

Rachel and Winny talk about lessons learned from living in different places.

My dad talks about his life and struggles before and during the Vietnam War up to his escape and adjustment to life here in the US... plus how he met and eventually married my mom. Stories of tense sail-boating trips,...

Childhood memories. Also many life experiences.

In 1965-66, Sora Frankel and her husband Aaron Frankel taught at the Joint Embassy school in Indonesia. In this conversation, Sora describes how they received the job offer, obtained visas, and made the trip via Hawaii and Thailand to Jakarta.

An interview with father Larry Vranka about his valuable memories from his life and the people in them. He speaks about his experience with the September 11th attacks while he was out of the country, important advice his family gave...

Jana Dickman tells some of her essential story after returning to The United States from Indonesia in the midst of the Coronavirus Pandemic. Our conversation includes her experience teaching abroad when COVID-19 began, being evacuated from Southeast Asia in Spring...

We talked about he child hood and the love of her life.

Today I talked with my friend and neighbor Lila who is taking a gap year in Indonesia with Princeton.

Honest vulnerability made Shyla and I fast friends when we met in Southeast Asia, far from our Southern roots. I also became a fan of her writing (under the pseudonym S.M. Holland) and took this opportunity to discuss "Get In...

On November 28, 2020, I, Ella Thomason Glenn, interviewed my grandfather on the topics of childhood, war years, ancestry, as well as everyday life.

In 1965-66, Sora Frankel and her husband Aaron Frankel taught at the Joint Embassy school in Jakarta. In this conversation, Sora discusses teaching in the school, dealing with the results of the uprising of 1965, and employing household servants.

September is National Preparedness Month! Katherine Chon, Director of the Office on Trafficking in Persons and Natalie Grant, Director of the Office of Human Services Emergency Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, spoke about...

I really enjoyed spending my day with you grandma and I love you.

Father, Steve Ingledew, shares memorable stories from his childhood vacations and travels

Frank age 98 on Providence Hospice, of Dutch Indonesian heritage born in east Indies shares reflections with his son Frank who lives with his father about serving in the Dutch Indonesian army and being a prisoner of war for three...

Debbie shares her childhood of growing up in Indonesia to starting a family and becoming a wife in America.

Acy is an Indonesian woman, and pastor to New Community Church Dili. She talks about community, faith, suffering and hope.

I, Hary’s daughter, interviewed him and asked questions about his child hood and his personal life.

This interview tells the love story of Johanna Lankheet and Rudolph Ruttendjie. Grandma born in the Netherlands and Grandpa in Indonesia, they meet as teenagers and their love spans continents and decades. Johanna follows Rudy to America continue their journey...

An interview with my mom on her life living in Indonesia.

We talk about life, family and ancestors

In 2001 my dad went on the trip to Indonesia for surfing. On his trip yapping against some rough waters in his boat along with his buddies and the workers on the boat. People begin to flood causing panic. My...