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Oral History Project
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As part of our celebration of Oregon’s sesquicentennial and our participation in the statewide Oregon Reads project, Cedar Mill Community Library partnered with Sunset High School's history department to produce an oral history project focused on the immigration experience. Members of our community who are immigrants to the United States or have family members who immigrated were invited to share their stories with the broader community. Under the direction of history teacher Matt Hiefield, students interviewed and recorded participants' stories. CML librarian Mark Richardson then processed and posted the stories as podcasts on the library's website.
For more information about this project, please contact Lynne Erlandson at 503 644-0043, ext 132, or Mark Richardson at ext 131, or email AskUsCML@wccls.org.
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Chris Gniewosz
A Canadian immigrant of Polish heritage discusses his family's flight from Poland after World War II and their
efforts to settle in Portland, Oregon.
Rheinhart talks about working in the high tech fields and being a professor. He also discusses life during and
after World War II. His wife Wilhelma discusses what life in the U.S. was like for a mother raising her children
in a foreign country with limited English language skills.
Interview with a local immigrant from Cambodia to the Portland area. He struggled under the Khmer Rouge regime and 4 years in a refugee camp before he was able to come to the US. This is his story.
Eva-Marie at the age of 17 left her small village in West Germany to enter the hotel business, which eventually brought her to California where she started her college career. She now teaches biology and zoology at Pacific University.
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