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Someone who grew up in Romania.

Life in Romania and the move to America

I interview my grandma how life was growing up in Romania

During this interview with my mother, Marilena Tolea, we discussed several different topics. First, she described her childhood in Romania, school, and the impacts of communism. Then, she elaborated on her family, particularly the influences her siblings and her mother...

Erno Csatlos talks with his daughter about how he grew up in communist controlled Romania and how that has affected the way he lives today.

I interviewed my father about his early life before he met my mother. He told me of how he left communist Romania and ended up meeting my mother in the end.

I interviewed my dad on his life in Communist Romania, as well as his experience immigrating to the United States!

I spoke with my mom about my childhood and hers. We also spoke about my future as a mom later in my life.

Alex impreuna cu sotia lui Nati au 4 copii adoptati iar 3 sunt in proces de adopție. In acest interviu de 30 de minute Alex povestește călătoria adopției și ce a stat în spatele ei.

Edgar was a Holocaust survivor in communist Romania. He talked to me about a close call he had as an Underground agent.

I just asked my mom questions I was wondering/curious about. I wanted to know more about her past and growing up.

Longtime friends, John (41) and Quinn (40), sit to talk about their time in the Peace Corps. How the Peace Corps changed them and the friendships and gifts they received from their time in service.

For the U.S. Bicentennial, every U.S. state selected 10 women to be included among a list of 500 honored in "Mothers of Achievement," a collection of biographies about women from 1776 to 1976. The book's publication was spearheaded by the...

In this recording my father talked about his experience in the Romanian Revolution and his experiences in the military and immigration to Italy.

Dad Talía about his experience emigrating from communist Romania to the US through Italy and his experience once arriving to America.

Hear Mrs. Corsei’s story about her trip from Romania to the United States

We talked about his childhood and family

Beatrice Peterson recalls her experiences traveling with the American military during the midst of the Cold War to locations like Vietnam, Cambodia, Germany, and Romania while being interviewed by her granddaughter, Maddy Shearer on May 14th, 2022. She details how...

Mom talks about my childhood and hers as well

How my dads childhood was and who his biggest influences were

In this interview, conducted in November 2017 in Manhattan Beach, California, Andreea Soricut (14) interviews her dad, Radu Soricut (44), about his childhood in Romania and how he came to the United States. Mr. Soricut shares early childhood memories, and...

I’m Raul Constantin, and I’m interviewing my mom, Irina Constantin, about her move to America from Romania

Overall I asked four questions to the participant, my mom, Judith. She replied to the questions and I recorded it. The first question I asked was what are you thankful for? Next I asked her to tell me about her...

During this interview me and my Grandmother talked about her childhood, as well as her professionss, and what she would like future generations to think of her and advice they should know from her.

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...