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Lizzy Calderon was the interviewer and I interviewed my mother Elena Calderon. My mom had moved to America when she was 19 and has lived here ever since. We had discussed every part of her move and all the adjustments...

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...

Norma explains where her family sprouted from and the reuniting experience she had with past family members in Russia.

Adventures of the CIA recruits’ efforts to interrupt the Communist festival in Finland.

I talked to my grandma about her father’s family of 13, and how being immigrants changed his life, and hers.

My mother’s immigration from Russia

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

Paulina, during the war the Nazis would make their lives miserable. When she was four they were taken from their home in Romania and forced them into a ghetto where they waited to be taken to Auschwitz. Her father was...

Oscar, born in Siberia, was a toddler when WWII broke out. His father was in the Russian military and could see what was taking place in Europe and became fearful for his family. After a stint in a Polish relocation...

The life of a stony young woman.