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What would it be like to be an immigrant, to leave your home, family, culture, and country to face the unknown in a strange land? Join host Walter Gallacher as immigrants from around the world tell th... more
FAQs about Immigrant Stories:How many episodes does Immigrant Stories have?The podcast currently has 103 episodes available.
January 22, 2025Immigrant Stories | Misheel ChuluunOn this months episode of Immigrant Stories, host Walter Gallacher interviews Misheel Chuluun. In 1991, Misheel Chuluun was eleven and living in Mongolia when the Soviet Union collapsed and brought her country's economy down with it. Tune in as she remembers her family's struggles to survive....more28minPlay
December 18, 2024Immigrant Stories | Klaus ObermeyerKlaus Obermeyer celebrates his one hundred and fifthbirthday this month. Tune in as he describes how he madehis way from immigrant day laborer to winter sports icon....more28minPlay
November 20, 2024Immigrant Stories | Kaziemierz KozakKaziemierz Kozak grew up in the 1930's in the Polish countryside. Life was good, until the day World War II came to his little farm. Tune in as Kaziemierz remembers life on the front lines....more27minPlay
October 15, 2024Immigrant Stories | Wafá SaeedWafa Saeed talks about her mother country, Sudan, and the Sudanese people's ongoing struggle for independence....more28minPlay
September 18, 2024Immigrant Stories | Mercedes GarciaMercedes Garcia was fifteen when El Salvador's civil war came to her village. Tune in as she remembers her childhood and her perilous journey to the United States....more27minPlay
August 20, 2024Immigrant Stories | Kathleen FitzsimmonsOn this month's episode of Immigrant Stories, Kathleen Fitzsimmons, a frontier mining historian and Leadville, Colorado native describes the life of Irish immigrant miners during Leadville's silver rush of the 1880s....more28minPlay
July 17, 2024Immigrant Stories | Diana HigueraOn this month's episode of Immigrant Stories, Diana Higuera, the founder and director of the Rocky Mountain Welcome Center in Denver, remembers the Venezuela of her childhood and talks about why millions of Venezuelans are fleeing what was once the richest country in South America....more28minPlay
June 18, 2024Immigrant Stories | Elizabeth BoomhowerOn this episode of Immigrant Stories we hear from Elizabeth Boomhower who grew up in the Netherlands in the 1930s when her country was known as Holland. She remembers the summer of her nineteenth year, 1940, when the Germans jumped out of the sky and took her country....more28minPlay
May 21, 2024Immigrant Stories | Spany MburunyemeOn this episode of Immigrant Stories, Spany Mburunyeme describes how his family escaped the chaos of civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, when he was a child....more28minPlay
April 16, 2024Immigrant Stories | Minani TheonesteOn this episode of Immigrant Stories, host Walter Gallacher speaks with Minani Theoneste. This April marks the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. Tune in as Minani Theoneste remembers his family's escape from the violence and their search for home....more28minPlay
FAQs about Immigrant Stories:How many episodes does Immigrant Stories have?The podcast currently has 103 episodes available.