Immigrant Stories

Marge Taniwaki was born in Los Angeles in September of 1941 to Japanese immigrant parents. Seven months later she and her family were roundedup and imprisoned at the Manzanar concentration camp in Central California. Join us as she remembers her childhood.

Andrea Loya is the executive director of Casa De Paz, the house of peace, in Aurora, Colorado. Andrea, her staff and volunteers provide aid and comfortto immigrants and refugees who have just been released from the AuroraDetention Center. Join us as she talks about her life and her work. Tune into Immigrant Stories on KDNK.org the third Tuesday of each month at 4:30 pm.

On this episode of Immigrant Stories, host Walter Gallacher talks with Maryhannah Hanson Throm. Maryhannah was born in 1927 on the rim of the Great Depression. Join us as she remembers her childhood on Divide Creek near Silt, Colorado. Tune into Immigrant Stories on KDNK.org the third Tuesday of each month at 4:30 pm.

On this episode of Immigrant Stories, Mariana Velasquez-Schmahl spent her career helping young people realize their dreams. Join us as she remembers her childhood and her dreams to make a difference. Tune into Immigrant Stories on KDNK.org the third Tuesday of each month at 4:30 pm.

On this episode of Immigrant Stories, join host Walter Gallacher and Colorado State Representative Junie Joseph, as she remembers her childhood inHaiti and her quest for a new life in the United States. Tune into Immigrant Stories on KDNK.org the third Tuesday of each month at 4:30 pm.

On this episode of Immigrant Stories, Colorado State Representative, Naquetta Ricks was thirteen when she and her mother and sister fled the 1980 coup in Liberia. Listen as she describes her life journey. Tune into Immigrant Stories on KDNK.org the third Tuesday of each month at 4:30 pm.

John Goodwin has spent nearly forty years as a peace officer. Join us as he reflects on his career and the disruption of the peace in Minneapolis and across our nation. Tune into Immigrant Stories on KDNK, the third Tuesday of each month at 4:30 pm.

On this episode of Immigrant Stories, Walter Gallacher describes his family's reasons for leaving Ireland and features six Central Americans who reflect on the war and chaos that forced them to flee their countries. Tune into Immigrant Stories on KDNK, the third Tuesday of each month at 4:30 pm.

On this episode of Immigrant Stories, host Walter Gallacher speaks with Diana Higuera. Diana has been working with immigrants and refugees for over twenty years. Join us as she describes the impact the last year and a half has had on Colorado's immigrant and refugee communities. Tune into Immigrant Stories on KDNK, the third Tuesday of each month at 4:30 pm.

On this episode of Immigrant Stories, join us as Dr. James Walsh, professor of American History at the University of Colorado, compares and contrasts the treatment of the Irish immigrants of the 1840s to the treatment of latino immigrants today. Tune into Immigrant Stories on KDNK, the third Tuesday of each month at 4:30 pm.

In the last five years, the Nieslanik families have suffered major losses. Immigrant Stories rebroadcasts the 2012 interview with the Nieslanik brothers in memory of Paul, John, Bob, Matt and Sharon who have all passed in the last five years. Tune into Immigrant Stories on KDNK, the third Tuesday of each month at 4:30 pm.

Tune in as Alex Sanchez, executive director of Voces Unidas, western Colorado's Latino advocacy group, talks about the birth of the organization and its efforts to prevent the unlawful detention and deportation of immigrants. Tune into Immigrant Stories on KDNK, the third Tuesday of each month at 4:30 pm.

Tune in as Colorado State Representative Elizabeth Velasco reflects on how she moved from language translator to community organizer to wildland firefighter to Colorado state representative all in the last five years. Tune into Immigrant Stories on KDNK, the third Tuesday of each month at 4:30 pm.

This year Carbondale, Colorado celebrates the 54th Annual Carbondale Mountain Fair. Tune in as Laurie Loeb remembers Carbondale and Aspen in the 1970s and the little big idea to start a summer fair celebrating the art and music of the valley.

Haregewoin Woldemariam grew up in Ethiopia, a country that has struggled with war, instability and corruption. She reflects on how the love her mother and father showed her as a child has carried her through life's worst hard times.

Ho Jin Chee known to his friends as H.J. remembers how his parents had toflee the South Korean mafia leaving him asthe sole provider for his younger siblings at the age of sixteen.

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.