Sadia Abdewali was born in Somalia in 1994. She moved to Kenya in 1999, Minnesota in 2000, and then Seattle, WA, where she grew up. She moved back to Minnesota in 2014 and is studying to be a K-5th grade teacher.
Creator:
Abdewali, Sadia
Contributor:
Wilhide, Andy
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Fartun Abdi was born in Somalia and raised in Kenya. Her family moved to Tanzania and Ethiopia before settling in Minnesota. She graduated from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2012. After graduation, she worked for Lutheran Social Services as an immigration specialist.
Creator:
Abdi, Fartun
Created:
2012-03-20 - 2012-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Diib Abdullahi was born in Somalia in 1987. Her family moved to Kenya in 1991 after the outbreak of civil war in Somalia. They lived there until her brother, who was living in the United States, sponsored them to come to Minnesota in 2006. She is currently a student at Century College.
Creator:
Abdullahi, Diib
Contributor:
Wilhide, Andy (Editor)
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
In this interview, Rabbi Kassel Abelson speaks of his life, times, and views regarding Judaism. Abelson spent over forty years as senior Rabbi at Beth El synagogue in North Minneapolis and later Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, serving as a leader in the community and as a developer of national Judaic programs and policy. Abelson recalls his family ...
Creator:
Abelson, Kassel
Contributor:
Schloff, Linda (Interviewer)
Created:
1993-06-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Rabbi Kassel Abelson (1924 - ) discusses his personal background, the details regarding the move of Beth El synagogue from North Minneapolis to Saint Louis Park, and the social-historical context in which the move took place.
Creator:
Abelson, Kassel, (1924 - )
Contributor:
Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:
2012-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Part of a series of interviews with drug addicts conducted by Ralph Tefferteller, associate director of the Henry Street Settlement in New York. Selections from the interviews were published in 1965 as The Addict in the Street, edited by Jeremy Larner. The name used in the title is a pseudonym created by Ralph Tefferteller. Identifying informati...
Creator:
Abruzzi, Dom
Contributor:
Tefferteller, Ralph (Interviewer)
Created:
1961-01-16; 1963-01-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
One of a series of interviews with drug addicts conducted by Ralph Tefferteller, associate director of the Henry Street Settlement in New York. Selections from the interviews were published in 1965 as The Addict in the Street, edited by Jeremy Larner. The name used in the title is a pseudonym created by Ralph Tefferteller. Identifying informatio...
Creator:
Abruzzi, Nick
Contributor:
Tefferteller, Ralph (Interviewer)
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
Subash Gupta moved to England from Ludhiana, India. There he met his wife and both then moved to Canada to work in a factory. They slowly earned enough money to provide a good life for their three children.
Creator:
Agarwal, Jayden
Created:
2018-11-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Andrew (Drew) Ahl is a white trans man. At the time of this interview, Ahl was living and working in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. In this oral history, Ahl recounts growing up in a religious military household with his dad, serving in the Air Force, working in the service industry, drag, LGBT bar cultures, and his eventual relocation to Minnesota,...
Creator:
Ahl, Andrew
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-07-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Mohamed Kassim Ahmed was born in Mogadishu, Somalia. He left Somalia in 2008 because of continued instability and moved to Uganda, where he continued high school. He was able to resettle in the United States in 2013. He is currently a student at St. Paul College.
Creator:
Ahmed, Mohamed
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Rehima was born in Nazret, Ethiopia. Her family is Gurage. She went to Qatar in 2007 and came to the United States in 2011, living briefly in Ohio, then in Dallas, and now Minnesota. Her father, Nasir Ahmed, and her mother, Shetu Mohammed, remained in Ethiopia along with her siblings.
Creator:
Ahmed, Rehima
Created:
2014-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Hyunjin has a father, mother, and twin sister. He has lived and studied in Korea, India, and New Zealand. He arrived in Minnesota in August 2013 to study engineering at the University of Minnesota.
Creator:
Ahn, Hyunjin; Stigman, Cori (Sunyang)
Created:
2014-03-20 - 2014-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Aren Aizura is a white trans guy from Australia. At the time of this interview, Aizura was an Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies. In this oral history, Aizura describes his experience of coming out; researching and teaching in the field of transgender studies; the issues aroun...
Creator:
Aizura, Aren
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-10-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Qui Dorian Alexander is a Puerto Rican/Black/Afro-Latinx trans-masculine non-binary FTM person who goes by he/him and they/them. At the time of this interview, Alexander was a graduate student and working as a yoga teacher based in the Twin Cities. In this oral history, Alexander speaks at length about self-determination, his experiences within ...
Creator:
Alexander, Qui Dorian
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-09-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Betula Ali's family moved from Somalia to Ethiopia during a war. They came to the U.S. in 2012. Though it has taken them some time to navigate the new culture, weather, and language, they have overcame all of their challenges by supporting each other.
Creator:
Ali, Betula
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-12-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Fadumo left Somalia 1989 and lived in the United Arab Emirates for 20 years. Her husband lost his job in 2009 during the financial crisis, so Fadumo and her eight children moved to New Dehli, India, on student visas. Her husband could not get a visa and returned to Somalia. After five years, they came to the U.S. as refugees in 2013. They li...
Creator:
Ali, Fadumo
Created:
2015-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Wise Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1989. His family left Somalia in 1991 to escape the civil war. He moved to Kenya and lived there for 21 years in refugee camps. In 2012, he moved to the U.S. with the help of the UNHCR. He is currently a student at St. Paul College.
Creator:
Ali, Wise
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Gloria Allen, also known as "Mama Gloria", is a biracial woman from Bowling Green Kentucky and Chicago. in this interview she speaks at length about founding the Charm School at the Center on Halstead in Chicago. Allen, also known as "Mama Gloria". In this interview, she speaks transitioning in the 1970s, dating, her work as a licensed practical...
Creator:
Allen, Gloria
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-04-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Deborah Bisazza was born in Italy to wealthy parents. She met Anthony Allen, an American, while studying abroad in France. They lived together in Italy before moving to the United States, where they married and started a family.
Creator:
Allen, Marco
Created:
2019-05-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Kye Allums is a Black queer fluid trans person from Minnesota who goes by he and they. In this oral history, Allums speaks at length about playing Division I basketball for George Washington University. He talks about navigating his changing understandings of masculinity, femininity and gender fluidity; and his national and his local advocacy work.
Creator:
Allums, Kye
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-09-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
This is the story of Maria Chavarin, who got married at the age of twelve and started a home and business with her husband. When money ran out, her husband worked in the United States through the bracero program and Maria followed him to work the fields as well. After having twelve children, Maria and her husband moved back to Mexico.
Creator:
Alonso, Fernanda
Created:
2018-05-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Silvia Alvarez de Davila was born in Guatemala in 1960 and grew up during the civil war. She studied at San Carlos University. She and her family moved to the United States in 2004 so that she could pursue her Ph.D. in education at the University of Minnesota. She currently works with the University of Minnesota Extension at the Center for Fami...
Creator:
Alvarez de Davila, Silvia
Created:
2015-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Nico Amador is a Latinx trans man, community organizer, trainer, educator, and writer based in Vermont. At the time of this interview, he was the Director of Operations at People's Hub, an online movement school and training hub, and was also pursuing an MFA at Bennington College's Writing Seminars. Prior to his time in Vermont, Amador worked as...
Amanda is a white trans woman. At the time of this interview, Amanda was living in Ellendale, Minnesota. In this oral history, Amanda discusses her experiences of gender non-conformity in the years before WWII in rural Minnesota, her experiences with gender affirming medical care in the 1950s and 1960s, and the community of trans women in Minnea...
Creator:
Amanda
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-03-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Nicholas Victor Ambrose (Vito Nicola Ambrosecchia) was born in Corleto Perticara, Italy in 1904. When he was eight, he migrated to the United States with his mother and brothers to rejoin his father in Connecticut. He lived in Boston, California, Virginia, Panama, and Argentina before marrying his wife Anna and raising a family in Brooklyn.
Creator:
Ambrose, Dominic
Created:
2017-06-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Tera Amesbury shares stories about her life as a parent to four children during the time of COVID-19 in Two Harbors, Minnesota. She describes her concerns about her son’s health care needs continuing to be met in a time of medication shortages and pressure on hospitals due to COVID-19. Her son has Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, which is a form of epil...
Creator:
Amesbury, Tera
Contributor:
Wright, Brooke
Created:
2020-08-13
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Sam Ames is a white transmasculine civil rights attorney, anti-conversion therapy activist, and theologian based in Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, he was the interim executive director of Our Family Coalition - an organization that advocates for and serves LGBTQ+ youth and families in the San Francisco Bay Area. Previously, ...
Breatta Bee Amore is a Black trans female from Chicago and Milwaukee. At the time of this interview, she was a student living in the Twin Cities. In this oral history, Amore touches upon topics such as gay bars in the Twin Cities from the 1980s and onward, including the Gay 90s, the Saloon, and Brass Rail. She also speaks about working and perfo...
Creator:
Amore, Breatta Bea
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-02-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
This audio is part of the Mount Zion Oral History records, which consists of oral histories conducted with members of Mount Zion Temple in Saint Paul, Minnesota as research in preparation for Mount Zion Temple's 150 anniversary in 2006. This oral history is part of the series on Holocaust Survivors.
Creator:
Amran, Fred; Mount Zion Temple
Contributor:
Fodor, Charles
Created:
2006-08-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Abbie Amundsen shares her experiences during this time of COVID-19 as a college sophomore and while working a variety of summer jobs. She recounts being in Las Vegas, Nevada for a debate competition in the middle of March, just as awareness about COVID-19 was emerging. She remembers much confusion about what it was and what to do or not to do. S...
Creator:
Amundsen, Abbie
Contributor:
Moxley, Brandi
Created:
2020-08-21
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Lucie Amundsen shares her perspective as an employee, friend and parent in Duluth during the time of COVID-19. She discusses how she first heard about COVID-19 on Minnesota Public Radio, and how she reads many other print news sources such as the Duluth News-Tribune and the New York Times. She works for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and...
Creator:
Amundsen, Lucie
Contributor:
Wright, Brooke
Created:
2020-08-21
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Andrea Anderson is a Latina trans woman from Mexico City and Minnesota. In this oral history, Anderson details her experiences immigrating from Mexico to the United States. She also speaks about her early childhood experiences of gender awareness; experiences with police harassment and discrimination in the workplace; her spirituality; the impac...
Creator:
Anderson, Andrea
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-04-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Dr. Erica Anderson is a white trans woman and clinical psychologist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. At the time of this interview, she was President of the U.S. Professional Association for Transgender Health (USPATH,) served on the board of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH,) and worked at the Child and Adole...
Kimberly Anderson shares her experiences of work and life during the COVID-19 pandemic in Duluth, Minnesota. She describes the very early weeks of hearing about the pandemic and reveals that she and her friends joked about it, thinking it may just be a hyped up story by the government. She says they realized it was serious soon after, when they ...
Creator:
Anderson, Kimberly
Contributor:
Moxley, Brandi
Created:
2020-09-11
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Mildred Margaret (Friedeborg) Anderson, former editor of Common Ground interview by William Beyer, 2 July 1977 at her home on Lighthouse Point, Mayville, New York. The theme at the beginning of this interview between Margaret Anderson and William Beyer was that of Common Ground, a literary magazine that Ms. Anderson was editor of for a number of...
Creator:
Anderson, Mildred Margaret
Contributor:
Beyer, William (Interviewer)
Created:
1977-07-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Mildred Margaret (Friedeborg) Anderson, former editor of Common Ground interview by William Beyer, 2 July 1977 at her home on Lighthouse Point, Mayville, New York
Creator:
Anderson, Mildred Margaret
Contributor:
Beyer, William (Interviewer)
Created:
1977-07-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Mildred Magaret (Friedeborg) Anderson, former editor of Common Ground. Remarks concerning authors associated with Common Ground. Comments in response to a letter from William Beyer, then a graduate student, University of Minnesota
Creator:
Anderson, Mildred Margaret
Created:
1976-06-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Mildred Magaret (Friedeborg) Anderson, former editor of Common Ground. Autobiographical remarks. Comments in response to a letter from William Beyer, then a graduate student, University of Minnesota
Creator:
Anderson, Mildred Margaret
Created:
1976-06-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
At the time of this interview, Roxanne Anderson was the volunteer executive director of the Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition (MTHC,) co-founder of RARE Productions, and the general manager and co-owner of Café Southside. Mx. Anderson began their involvement in HIV work in the 1980s, eventually working with Nick Metcalf and the Minnesota Me...
Creator:
Anderson, Roxanne
Contributor:
Angelica, Emil (interviewer); Carr, Peter (interviewer); Bergman, Andrea Klein (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (archival processing)
Created:
2015-09-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Roxanne Anderson is a Black gender non-conforming masculine of center person. At the time of this interview, they were the Director of Trans & Racial Justice at the organization OutFront Minnesota. This is the second of two interviews the Tretter Collections hold with Roxanne Anderson. In this oral history Anderson speaks at length about growing...
Creator:
Anderson, Roxanne
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-07-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Roxanne Anderson is a Black gender non-conforming masculine of center person. At the time of this interview, they were the Director of Trans & Racial Justice at the organization OutFront Minnesota. This is the first of two interviews the Tretter Collection holds with Roxanne Anderson. In this oral history, they speak at length about their involv...
Creator:
Anderson, Roxanne (Narrator)
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-07-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
John discusses family “ghosts,” deceased family members in both the paternal and maternal branches of his Italian-American family. His paternal side’s ghost was Giovanni (John) Andreozzi, his father’s biological father. Giovanni came from Falvaterra, Lazio, Italy to the United States in 1909. He married John’s grandmother, Vincenza Limongiell...
Creator:
Andreozzi, John
Contributor:
Schell, Justin (Editor)
Created:
2013-03-20 - 2013-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Paulina Angel is a Hispanic trans woman from Indio, California. At the time of this interview, Angel was working as the Executive Director of the Transgender Community Project. In this interview she speaks at length about some of her work in passing the Fair Education Act in California. She also describes her experiences with language and identi...
Creator:
Angel, Paulina
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-12-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
In this interview, Harold Arenson gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan and World War II veteran. He was born in 1922 in St. Paul. Arenson explains the while attending the University of Minnesota he joined the Service as a combat engineer and eventually fought in France, Belgium and Germany. He suffered an injury but continued to s...
Creator:
Arenson, Harold, 1922-?
Contributor:
Hoffman, Susan (Interviewer)
Created:
2006-10-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Hillary Arias Rangel was born in Tarímbaro, Michoacán, Mexico in 1998. When she was three years old, she and her grandmother moved to Minnesota to join her parents, who had lived there since Hillary was a year old. Hillary stayed in Minnesota until she was thirteen, when she accompanied her grandmother back to Mexico while her grandmother sought...
Creator:
Arias Rangel, Hillary
Created:
2017-05-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This is the story of Rosa Arteaga, who grew up in an abusive household in Mexico. She grew up taking care of her family amidst her parents' divorce and came to the United States to earn enough to buy a home for her mother and herself in order to reunite her family.
Creator:
Arteaga, Sarai
Created:
2018-10-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Billie Sage Ashton is a white trans woman who grew up In Austin, Minnesota. At the time of this oral history, Ashton was working with Delta Airlines. In this oral history, she describes her early life during the 1960 and 70s in Austin, MN. She also talks about coming out in the 1980s, her romantic relationships, her involvement with the City of ...
Creator:
Ashton, Billie Sage
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-04-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
She was born in the Philippines in 1996 and moved to America when she was 6 years old in October of 2002. She is the oldest of 4 children, 1 boy and 2 girls. My mother is a nurse and father is a counselor.
Creator:
Asuncion, Faye Avery
Created:
2014-09-22 - 2014-12-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Nora Avila de Martinez was born in Mexico. She left Mexico in 1998, and she and her husband moved to St. Paul that December. Since then, she has worked at the YMCA. She is also a student at Century College studying nursing.
Creator:
Avila de Martinez, Nora
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Azrin Awal shares stores of her life as a college student, student activities employee, and volunteer during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Duluth, Minnesota. She shares her perspective as a student at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) majoring in public health and taking classes about Global Health during the early spring of 2...
Creator:
Awal, Azrin
Contributor:
Nicklawske, Mark
Created:
2020-08-14
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Dr. Andrew D. Badley is Chair of the Mayo Clinic task force on SARS-CoV2 / COVID-19 research, where he oversees all research activities including clinical trials related to the virus and the disease. In this oral history interview, he discusses organizing the Mayo Clinic task force, research needs, priorities, and challenges relating to the pand...
Creator:
Badley, Dr. Andrew D (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-07-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Amara Baja was born in a refugee camp in Thailand. His family was resettled in the United States on August 10, 2010. The family first lived in Twin Falls, ID before relocating to St. Paul, Minnesota.
Creator:
Baja, Amara
Created:
2016-03-20 - 2016-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
At the time of this interview, Dr. Jason Baker was an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Minnesota and Staff Physician at Hennepin County Medical Center, where he worked with infectious diseases and HIV medicine with a focus on aging patients living with HIV. In this interview, Dr. Baker d...
Creator:
Baker, Jason V.
Contributor:
Angelica, Emil (interviewer); Carr, Peter (interviewer); Bergman, Andrea Klein (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (archival processing)
Created:
2015-12-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Natalie Baker shares her experiences of living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She recalls hearing about the novel coronavirus in the very early months and explains that she had some disbelief about its seriousness at the time. She lists her main news sources, including the daily reading of El País [Spanish language daily newspaper, ba...
Creator:
Baker, Natalie
Contributor:
Spehar, Elizabeth
Created:
2020-10-02
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
In this interview, Roz Baker (1923 - ) gives an account of her life as a Jewish native of Minneapolis. She relates her family background which includes an immigration story to the United States from Russia through Cypress in 1915. She describes her childhood growing up Jewish in Minneapolis, relating memories of Labor-Zionist meetings, holiday t...
Creator:
Baker, Roz, 1923 -
Contributor:
Schulman, Ann (Interviewer)
Created:
1999-06-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
This story is about how the parents of Jesus Balderrama immigrated from Mexico in order to give their children better opportunities. Balderrama recounts the struggles of growing up in poverty and of being an intermediary between his parents and the English-speaking world around them.
Creator:
Balderrama, Jesus
Created:
2019-05-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Gerri Balter was born and raised in North Minneapolis in 1944. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Ukraine to rejoin their fathers, who were living and working in Minneapolis. Gerri graduated from North High School in 1962 and received her B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1966. She was a Vista volunteer from 1966-1967. She i...
Creator:
Balter, Gerri
Contributor:
Wilhide, Andy (Editor)
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Brian Barber shares stories of his experiences as an illustrator, animator and parent of young adults in Duluth during the initial days of the COVID-19 pandemic. He describes how he felt he should do something daily at the start of the quarantine, and settled on creating the “Draw-Along Fun Time” where he posted short videos of himself creating ...
Creator:
Barber, Brian
Contributor:
Scholtz, Mike
Created:
2020-07-31
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Damanta Basnet was born in Beldangi 2 refugee camp in Damak, Nepal. Her parents moved there after the Lhotsampas were forced to leave Bhutan in the 1990s. Damanta and her family moved to Minnesota in 2011 and overcame many obstacales while adjusting to the new culture.
Creator:
Basnet, Damanta
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-05-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Jae Bates is a Korean American trans man who grew up near Hopkins, Minnesota. In this oral history, Bates details childhood experiences of gender and race, including narratives of bullying, transphobia, and racism; his identity as a South Korean transracial adoptee and the imperialist histories of international adoption systems; coming out to fa...
Creator:
Bates, Jae
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-06-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
David E. Beard shares his reflections on life in Northeastern Minnesota under quarantine during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. David heard about the virus quite early, and reflects on this experience; how he gradually realized, as it moved closer to home, that this was something to be taken seriously. As a college professor, David talks about the c...
Creator:
Beard, David E.
Contributor:
Moxley, Brandi
Created:
2020-08-05
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Daniel Benoit shares his experience of living and creating during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. He talks about the way he first heard about the novel coronavirus and details where he gets his news. He mentions that he intentionally follows a broad political spectrum of information and reads with a critical awareness of potential bias. He ex...
Creator:
Benoit, Daniel
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-22
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This audio is part of the Mount Zion Oral History records, which consists of oral histories conducted with members of Mount Zion Temple in Saint Paul, Minnesota as research in preparation for Mount Zion Temple's 150 anniversary in 2006. This oral history is part of the series on Social Justice.
Creator:
Bentson, Larry; Mount Zion Temple
Contributor:
Sampson, Ellen
Created:
2005-04-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Zachary Benz shares stories of his life in Hibbing, Minnesota during the time of COVID-19. He describes how he first heard about COVID-19 via Twitter, where he was posting material for his own project, the Daily Planet news site. He covered it as a news story himself and knew that it had the potential to “spread like wildfire, if unchecked.” He ...
Creator:
Benz, Zachary
Contributor:
Nicklawske, Mark
Created:
2020-08-28
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
In this interview, Bruce Berezovsky discusses information about himself and his family. He talks about where they lived and how involved they were in the synagogue. He also discusses his education at the University of Minnesota where he earned an undergraduate degree in Political Science. He earned a Master's degree in History at the University ...
Creator:
Berezovsky, Bruce
Contributor:
Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:
2011-07-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Interview with Bob Bergland on 03/07/17 discussing contributions and involvement with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and its predecessor organizations.
Creator:
Bergland, Bob
Contributor:
Kroese, Ron (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-03-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA).
Clarke A. Chambers' interview with Hyman Berman, a member of the Department of History, who speaks on his work related to labor history at the University of Minnesota.
Creator:
Berman, Hyman
Contributor:
Chambers, Clarke A. (Interviewer)
Created:
1984-09-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
DeBora Rachelle Bernick describes her experiences of life and work during COVID-19. She describes how the pandemic affected the creation and marketing of a new travel suitcase that she was designing. She says the process was interrupted and then significantly slowed down when she couldn’t travel to China where the product is being made. She expl...
Creator:
Bernick, DeBora Rachelle
Contributor:
Villiard, Moira
Created:
2020-09-11
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
In this interview, Paula Beugen discusses personal information about where she grew up and where her family lived. They moved to St. Louis Park in 1957. They belonged to Beth El Synagogue, and she attended Talmud Torah. She attended the University of Minnesota and Bachelor of Arts in Social Welfare and Child Psychology. She also has Senior Manag...
Creator:
Beugen, Paula
Contributor:
Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:
2012-06-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
