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I am the granddaughter of immigrants who fled North Africa as Jews. And the granddaughter of immigrants who fled Poland during the pogroms. My family also originates from Spain. Jews were expelled by Isabella the catholic during the inquisition. They fled to Italy. Where they were parked in a Jewish ghetto.
I wish this exhibit had one Jewish example of migration. We are the people of exodus.
My parents were the first in their respective families to come here in 1999. The majority of our family still lives in India, all the way across the world. We get to see them every couple of years, but they’re always, always calling. We’ve found a sort of second family here because we live in an area where there’s a high concentration of Indian immigrants too and it’s wonderful, but not the same.
My family is originally from Colombia. I was born there too. I had to leave my country due to 1990s violence era. Especially cause my grandfather was kidnapped. I then moved to Mexico where I was also attempted to be kidnapped. We only lasted 3 years in Mexico. Then California where I grew up, spent 10 years there. However even living in the USA didn’t seem like it. My mom made us talk Spanish in the house, we followed all our cultural traditions & I was totally lost when it came to pop culture. Music was different, the obsession of celebrities, the consumerism. I’ve always felt like I was an immigrant and I still am even if I have my citizenship. I continued my journey to Hawaii and then Miami. Miami now feels like my comfort hole. I get to eat empanadas and hear reggaeton as loud as I want.
My family immigrated here when my mother was a child from Cambodia, as an attempt to escape the genocide.
My mother’s family is from Lebanon, her grandfather came over when it was still Syria and we’ve been in MA ever since.
My parents brought me and my 2 older brothers to the United States From Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1965. I was just 2 years old. They left all of our relatives behind while we started a new life in Salt Lake City. It was an unlikely place for Argentine Jews to settle. Over the next decade and a half, we moved in California and New York, always for my dad’s jobs as he earned an upper middle class living and we were all educated. I have. A Ph.D in Molecular Biology and work in biotech in Boston. My younger sister is the only one who can legally be president as she was born in the US.
My mother immigrated to the United States in 1997 from Ireland after she married my American father.
Read moreI hope others will get the same opportunities that I was given in this country.
Read moreOften it still feels like we're fresh off the boat.
Read moreTheir families immigrated to Magnolia, Ohio in the 1930s.
Read moreI'm Albanian.
Read moreThe fabric of the family is string and beautiful, worn and faded, vibrant and engaging.
Read moreMy grandmother came by boat with five children.
Read moreI live in Cleveland, where my great grandfather immigrated from the former Yugoslavia, now Slovenia, around 1915.
Read moreWe still have strong connections to our relatives in Germany.
Read moreMy wife goes back 9 generations. I, two. I know little about my grandparents much less my ancestors
Read moreMy family emigrated to America in 1997 after civil war in Bosnia. The world grew bigger since then.
Read moreIt is a family made up of freed slaves, blacks born free, English men and women, Native Americans, French Huguenots, and Spanish Jews.
Read moreMy family immigrated into this country when i was just a young boy.
Read moreI believe immigrants like my parents have greatly shaped countries such as the United States and Canada, and continue to be a fundamental component to an emerging nation within the 21st century.
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