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Old Milwaukee Immigration Interview

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Since we are talking about immigration in social studies, we interviewed someone in our family. I chose to do both sides of my family. Here is my dad’s side: My great-grandparents were born in Poland and then went to Italy in 1947 because of the Holocaust. They left by bus. That’s where they got married and had my grandma. All of them then left Italy in 1950. They went to Kentucky because they got a job there. They left by boat. Then my great-grandparents died when my grandma was older and she got married. Then she had my dad and my uncle. After meeting my mom, they moved to Chicago and got married. Then they moved to Milwaukee in 2001 and three years later they had my brother. Six years later, they had me. One of the similarities between my dad’s side and the people in the video were that they came by boat. Some of the differences are that they came from Italy and Poland and the people in the video came from places like Germany. Here is my mom’s side of the family: My great-grandma was born in Lithuania. They left Lithuania in 1915 because they wanted a better life.

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