Dia de Inmigracion

Nowi- When he was 4 his parents brought him to the u.s to have a better childhood and life. In 2011 his parents were deported back to mexico for being  illegal immigrants, They can come back in 2020. He can still talk to parents and communicate with them but has not seen his parents for 7 years.

 

John Apotheker- I first talked with my grandpa. He was from the netherlands. He moved to the US when he was in 6th grade. He said that he took a boat from that netherlands to new york. While on the boat ride he experienced tremendous amounts of sea sickness. It was interesting to hear him tell of how there was no body in the dining room. THe waves were so high that when you walked on the deck you were either running down or climbing up. Back and forth. When he arrived he got his picture taken in kalamazoo. He has 7 sisters and 3 brothers. He lives happily in Holland MI now and has many great grandchildren.

 

Izzy-Sky was ten when she moved to the United states from Taiwan. When she moved to United states she first lived in new York and she moved to Michigan because her brother got married and her parents moved here

Mani- Mani’s story was really sad  & I really wish I could hear more of it. Manis dad was killed when she was 9 right in front of her eyes. They would sleep in a tree and wear the same clothes for 3 years 8 months and 20 days. They were sleeping in a tree when they took her dad torchered him by beating him up and letting him die then they cut his head off. Mani ran to go tell her mom, her mom had gotten hit by a machete in the arm and it stopped working. Her mom told mani go get your sisters. Her sisters were not  allowed to see their mom so mani had to swim somewhere to tell them to come .

 

Jim Roskam – Jim Roskam moved from the Netherlands when he was 1. He was able to tell us about his experience through stories his parents told him and what he saw when he went to the Netherlands 2 years ago for the first time after he moved to the US when he was 1 year old. Jim’s parents were alive in WWII and since the Netherlands were under the occupation of the Nazis his parents had a lot of memories of life with the Nazis everywhere. When his dad was in Middle school the Nazis came into his school and took the strongest looking boys and brought them to a field. When they got their the Nazis handed them shovels and made them dig. They were digging graves. The Nazis went to a barn and brought out a line of people. The number of people was the same number of graves the boys had dug. The Nazis sent them away to wait and while the boys were waiting the heard gunshots go of. Soon enough the boys were called back to bury the people the Nazis had just killed. Since all the villages around their were small the boys new lots of people and they wanted to see if they knew any of the people the Nazis had just killed. Before they could look at the faces of the dead people the Nazis threatened that if they looked at the faces they also would end up in a freshly dug graves. So the boys filled in the graves and went back to school with horribly thoughts and picture in their heads. This was only one of the stories I heard about him.

 

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