Vanessa tells her family immigration story from Mexico and the value she places on education. Her father was a miner in Bishop, CA. Read More »
Vanessa Sandoval
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Undocumented Undergraduate
In this season of my life, I am a freshmen undergraduate student at a university in California. Like the typical undergraduate, I live in a dorm room and often stay up ungodly hours of the night typing away term papers like the rest of them. At my university, I am just your average nineteen-year-old, freshmen girl fulfilling her educational requirements. ... Read More »
Ingeborg Baehr Hirschhorn
My mother was born in Germany in 1927. Her dad was a dentist and her mom was a housewife. They lived in Bamburg and had a nice, comfortable, multi-story house. With the rise of Hitler, things became increasingly worse for her family. Mom, along with all the other Jewish kids in the Catholic school she attended, was thrown out of ... Read More »
Gelsimino Joe Tufo
Click & listen to the story as read by Gelsimino’s granddaughter, Marilynn Holland, a resident of Palo Alto. My grandfather was born in Verbicaro, a small Southern Italian inland town in Calabria, Italy. His passport says that he was born in 1892. His family was quite poor working in the fields. His mother collected spare coins in ... Read More »
Mindy Nguyen
She tells the story of her father who tried to escape from Vietnam three times and finally made his way by boat to the Phillipines and a refugee camp there. Eventually he made it to the U.S. with just the clothes on his back. He found some entry level work, and was able to become a welder. Read More »