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I interviewed my mom, Elena Skourletos, about her personal experiences of being an immigrant from the Soviet Union to America.

Lloyd Torgove - 96 years old, Michael (Misha) Clasby - 36 years old. Yiddish, Russian Jewish Immigrant family experience, WW2, St. Louis, Nahant MA, Boston Hotel, YoYo in the 1930’s US, Life Wisdom

Alice is 16 and my mom is 41 and our relationship is mom and daughter. My mom was a Latvian(Was born when it was still Russia at the time) and this is about her story on her moving to the...

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.

I interviewed my mom (Karina Glosman) about her immigration story, coming from Russia to the United States. We discussed her earliest memories in America, assimilation, financial challenges, her role models, and proudest moments in her life.

Joshua Furman (age 9) interviews his paternal grandmother (age 69) about her immigration to the United States from Russia. Key points discussed include why she left Russia and the move to the states.

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...

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

It was amazing to interview my grandma and ask her these questions it was fun

Kate tells me about her life in Russia. She tells me about her mom and her dad and her experiences with tennis. She tells me about her cat.

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...

The life of a stony young woman.

Mostly about how it was for my mom growing up.

When I interviewed my mom we talked about her job, family, how she grew up, her childhood, etc. We also talked about her family and husband/my dad.

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

Cynthia Ferreira and Ronan Smith talk about her experiences as an American student in the USSR during the last days of the Soviet Government.

We talked about what her childhood was like.

Interviewing my dad about life growing up, the military, and recalling fun stories.