by xstill2025 | Jun 9, 2023 | Stories (2023), Uncategorized
Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born singer who immigrated from Cuba to Miami when she was only two years old. Her father worked as a bodyguard for Cuban President Fulgencio Batista and her mother was a teacher. After working for Batista, her father worked for the...
by jronnen2026 | Jun 9, 2023 | Stories (2023)
During the time of the soviet union, many jewish people were trying to leave to Israel. However, they were denied the right to leave, thereby being called refuseniks, because they received refusals from the Soviets.
by jronnen2026 | Jun 9, 2023 | Highlighted, Stories (2023)
My grandma was born in Romania in 1941. In 1959, due to the fear that the spread of communism would initiate another Holocaust-like experience, she and her family went from Italy to Israel. They left Romania very poor because they could only take 200 dollars with...
by jluo2025 | Jun 9, 2023 | Featured, Stories, Stories (2023)
In 1945, my mom’s father, a 17-year-old soldier of the youth military (青年军), followed the Chinese military academy to the small island of Taiwan to pursue military training. At the time, China was under the rule of Chiang Kai Shek, the leader of...
by dkarnaugh2024 | Jun 8, 2023 | Stories (2023)
Under the communist regime, you could be persecuted for not following the very strict rules of the communist regime. It was also illegal to immigrate or travel outside the nation – you could be persecuted for doing this, as the government refused to grant legal...
by dkarnaugh2024 | Jun 8, 2023 | Stories (2023)
Here, I interview my mother on her story as an immigrant from Romania. Up until 1989, Romania was under a communist regime. In 1994, she obtained a VISA from the young democratic government and immigrated to the US. She won the “Green Card Lottery,” and...
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