Jiang Du

My dad, Jiang Du was living a normal life before making the decision to study abroad. He had no intentions of changing his lifestyle until my grandfather, who was a professor, came back from his exchange trip to Germany. After hearing the fascinating stories about...

Roswitha “Rosi” Ehrhardt

Roswitha “Rosi” Ehrhardt Parker Perkins The story of Roswitha “Rosi” Ehrhardt begins in Czechoslovakia, the year 1943, where she was born to German parents. Her childhood in Czechoslovakia was a tough one; Her and her family were forced out of the country for being...

Elana Jankauskus

My great-grandmother Elana Jankauskus immigrated to America from Lithuania in 1921.  She lived in a small farming village near Kaunas, Lithuania.  She spoke Lithuanian, Polish, and Russian.  She and her mother had been waiting for her older brother to come back from...

My Great Grandfather- Harry Byron

My name is Harry Byron. I was born into a Jewish family in Russia 1903. The first fifteen years of my life are years that I live to forget. I lost my parents and my sister, my only sense of family, at a very young age to disease, like many other people in Russia...

Axel Bergdahl

Axel and Amanda Bergdahl My great-great grandfather, Axel Bergdahl came from Sweden sometime in the 1890s. He came from a small town called Armas Jarvi, which was in the arctic circle,  about 2 miles from the Finnish border. His older brother inherited the family...

Peter Hogyun Lee: By Leonora Lee

My father, Peter Hogyun Lee, was born in Seoul, South Korea. His family was fairly established in Korea, his uncle being the governor of Chonju province, and much of his family being prominent members of the business community. Truly, as his family was living so...
Skip to toolbar