Immigrant Stories
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 their stories of survival, alienation, persistence and triumph.
Latest Episodes
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Tune in as Dr. George Mizner remembers when he was eight years old watching the Nazis goose step down the street in front of his apartment in Austria. He knew, even then, that his life had changed forever. -
Tune in as Kurt Bresnitz remembers the Spring of 1938 when he was preparing to graduate from high school until Hitler stormed into his country and made him an Austrian refugee, seeking asylum in the United States. -
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. -
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.
