My group had two immigrants come and talk about their journey to the U.S. The first person was from the Netherlands, her name was Mrs. Timmer and she an interesting story. She talked about some of the reasons her family left, the two main ones were, no good employment, and the Nazis invaded. She told us how one night when she was a baby, a bomb went off. She was sleeping in her crib and the force from the bomb blew the door down over her crib and that door protected her from all the debris flying around. She rode on her family on a big boat where they then went to a station to do lots of paperwork. The next person was a man named Mr. Slette from Norway, he heard a friend talking about coming to the U.S. and decided he wanted to also. A day or two later, he was applied to be an exchange student.
What I Learned from 7th Grade Immigration Day
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