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… Single Men and Women July 20, 1957 – Waterman My story starts in the summer of 1951, when I went on holidays with my family to a resort … we would be married eventually. I lived in Leeuwarden, the capital city of Friesland. Gerald lived in Amsterdam, in the province of North … He looked me up and something clicked again. In 1957 I was invited to his sister’s wedding and on my birthday March 28 (I turned 28), we …
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… FAMILY April 2022 On February 23, 1951 Geert and Geesje Lunshof and their 6 children arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax Nova Scotia. They had … liner. Women/girls were in separate sleeping quarters from the men/boys. We were in soft-bottomed slings that functioned like bunk beds … about 5 miles outside of Hamilton, ON. In Halifax we faced a train ride all the way to Hamilton and dad decided that Albert and he would …
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… Diary Entries Friday, April 26 I left Sheffield at 9 am and was met in London by the Canadian Army and driven in a private car along with a girl named Beatrice to the hotel. This place is very nice and quite near Hyde Park. We … went with Beatrice to her sister's at Hammersmith. Then we went to see Bette Davis in "The Corn is Green". After that we had supper at a café …
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… Stanley Vander Meulen was born Sape Vander Muelen on 26 January 1933 in Driesum, a rural village in Friesland, a province of … from place to place. After World War II, Dutch emigrants mainly chose South Africa, New Zealand, the United States and Canada as their … factors’ came from Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the United States. That city had a large, long-established Dutch-American community, and a …
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… The immigration story of Luigi Napolitano (Italian immigrant) This is the story of Luigi Napolitano and his wife Grazia Letizia Marzo …
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Emily Burton, PhD, Oral Historian and Patrick Kinghan, M.A., Research Intern Introduction: The Chilean Exile Crisis 2023 marks the 50-year anniversary of a coup d’état in Chile that overthrew the democratically-elected Unidad Popular (Popular Unity) party and led to 6,000 Chilean exiles settling in …
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… una Regione completamente agricola fino agli anni 1960. Da allora ha cominciato uno sviluppo industriale che non si e piú fermato, le … posto a fabbriche e case. Dal 1945 al 1948 cera un pó di lavoro nelle citta come Treviso - Mestre ricostruire cio che i bombardamenti avevano …
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… RACCONTO DI VITA: CANDIDA FRANCA IACCINO (dedico questa mia storia ai miei figli e nipoti) Era un mio desiderio ritornare al Porto di Halifax, avevo un ricordo vago e triste. Così il primo di luglio …
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… How can I share my story? You can share your story in two ways. You can complete the online story form located here . You can also email …
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… with a shrill whistle and is puffing on towards Helsinki. Raili said she doesn't want to go and she just whispered to me that we should … good idea because I want to be with Äiti and Isi. Raili is angry as a bee and is sulking in the corner by the train window. Äiti won’t stop crying and that makes me sad. She feels very bad about leaving Mummi, because she’s Mummi’s only …