An audio recording of an oral history of Alex Gajowskyj on his early years growing up in England, what brought him to the US and Oregon, and the main differences he sees between living in the U.S. and living in England
An audio recording of an oral history of Rita Aparicio on the differences between Oregon and Puerto Rico, what she misses from there (her job as a midwife) and what she likes about Oregon.
An audio recording of an oral history of Lisette Sage on her early years in Holland, moving to South Africa as a child, then moving to America when she was ten.
An audio recording of an oral history of Rhonda Lynne Erlandson on her great grandfather immigrating to the US from Sweden in 1902 and her grandparents and father, Rolf, following them and immigrating in the late 40s.
An audio recording of an oral history of Eva-Maria Muecke on leaving her small village in West Germany at the age of 17 to enter the hotel business, which eventually brought her to California where she started her college career, becoming a teacher…
An audio recording of an oral history of Julie Dennis on the story of her father-in-law, Hank Dennis, who immigrated to the US from Poland as a 12 year old boy
An audio recording of an oral history of Chann Noun, an immigrant from Cambodia,on his experiences under the Khmer Rouge regime and with 4 years in a refugee camp before he was able to come to the US.
An audio recording of an oral history of Elin Helene Simmons on her parents, who immigrated from Sweden and Norway to the US. She discusses her family and the differences between her parents' home countries and the US.
An audio recording of an oral history of Chris Gniewosz, a Canadian immigrant of Polish heritage,on his family's flight from Poland after World War II and their efforts to settle in Portland, Oregon.
An audio recording of an oral history of Reinhart and Wilhelma Engelmann on Reinhart's work in the high tech field, being a professor, and life during and after World War II in Germany. Wilhelma discusses what life in the U.S. was like for a mother…
An audio recording of an oral history of Alice Kern on growing up in a Romanian Jewish community, surviving the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen during the War, and later settling in Portland, Oregon.
An audio recording of an oral history of Luis Amezcua on his experience of being an immigrant from Mexico in Oregon, what the differences are, what does and does not miss, and how he and his family ended up in Oregon
An audio recording of an oral history of Veronica Predovic on her as an immigrant from Argentina in both the U.S. and Southeast Asia. She also discusses the differences between Argentina and the U.S., particularly regarding her children and their…
An audio recording of an oral history of Dolores Beccar on immigrating to the United States from Argentina with her family in 2001, settling first in Southern California then moving to Oregon after significant social and financial upheavals in…
An audio recording of an oral history of Henry Wang, who was born in China and moved to Taiwan when he was young, on being an immigrant to the U.S. and earning an engineering degree.
An audio recording of an oral history of Charity Spires, who was born and raised in Palau before moving to Oregon for college. She shares some of the differences between the two countries and what she likes about Palau and Oregon.
An audio recording of an oral history of Jo McCutcheon on being an immigrant from England and her observations about America. Jo moved to the US in the early 1980s at the age of 26 after falling in love with a U.S. citizen
An audio recording of an oral history of Susanna Breiling on her experiences growing up in Argentina and Sweden in the 1970s before settling down in Oregon as an adult.
An audio recording of an oral history of Cleo Leigh on the culture shock of traveling from Hong Kong to New York for college, how she came to Oregon, and challenges she faced as an immigrant.