Immigrant Stories

On 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.

Klaus 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.

Kaziemierz 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.

Wafa Saeed talks about her mother country, Sudan, and the Sudanese people's ongoing struggle for independence.

Mercedes 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.

On 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.

On 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. Tune into Immigrant Stories on KDNK, the third Tuesday of each month at 4:30 pm.

On 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.

On 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.

On 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.