Gallery of Interviews

Jute Aldeschulte was a Lithuanian child during World War II in Germany. She immigrated after the war to Australia and then to the U.S.

Lena Abrini immigrated from Italy.

Tejinder Bal immigrated from Punjab, India in 1969 and attended the University of California at Berkeley. She describes her involvement in the Sikh Temple in Stockton as well as education; treatment of people of color in the US; antiwar protests; her expectations about America; getting her MA as a mother; cultural maintenance; and American child-rearing.

Tejinder Bal Interview (Audio, Part 1)

Tejinder Bal Interview (Audio, Part 2)

Bhakta Bharati Interview

Raghubir Bisla

Maria Bossana immigrated to the U.S. from Argentina in 1957. She describes learning English and establishing her own dress design business.

Francis Canete left the Philippines in 1931 for the U.S.

Camila Carido (1910) immigrated from the Philippines to the U.S. in 1929.

Maria Cecchini (1906) immigrated from Italy in 1928. She describes the effect of quota laws on Italian immigrants.

Sadie Chan (1913) immigrated from China in 1921. She describes Chinese in Stockton, labor in poultry and a cannery, Chinese New Year, Methodism, superstitions, matched marriage, Great Depression, education, and women’s rights

Kishori Chaubal immigrated from the town of Pune in Indian (Maharashtra).

Mary Clemson immigrated from Holland in 1946. She describes evading the Germans during World War II.

Maria De Groot (1908) immigrated from the Netherlands.

Domenica Diangson immigrated from the Philippines. She describes Filipinos/as, discrimination, the Great Depression, customs, home life, community, Stockton, and World War II.

Zulka Dozier (1939) was born in Eastern Poland and her family experienced Russian oppression.

Ana Errecart (1892) immigrated from the Basque Country to Stockton, California. She describes French Basque, farming, housekeeping, the Basque hotel, and community life in Stockton.

Brigitte Farion (1943) immigrated from Germany in 1956.

Rafaelita Garcia was one of many who immigrated from Spain to Hawaii and then to the mainland U.S.

Sylvia Gonos (1914) came from Greece (Aernioni) in 1933. She describes the Great Depression; learning English; later waves of Greek immigrants; her involvement in the Greek community and the Greek Church in Stockton.

Leida Gutierrez (1934) immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba in 1962.

Laura Hermosilla (1918) immigrated to California from Guadalajara, Mexico in 1935.

Dolores Jimenez (1916), the daughter of immigrants who came from Spain in 1913, describes Spanish immigrant community, work in Hawaii on a sugar plantation, El Circulo Espanol, field labor, fruit picking, Oakley (California), the Great Depression, traditions, the Junior Women’s Club, Stockton (California), and education. 

Evanghlia Karelis (1913) immigrated from Greece to the U.S. in 1949.

Maria Kepler, born in El Salvador, immigrated first to Costa Rica, then Panama, and finally to the U.S. in 1949.

Ana Leida and Leida Gutierrez

Luba Librowitz fled Poland via a West German refugee camp in 1949. She describes antisemitism and the effects of the Holocaust.

Kathryn Longeman immigrated to the U.S. from Germany.

Aya Motoike

Algea Natali

Champeng Norasith

Una O'Farrell

Anna Ospital

Maria Parks

Dina Polsinar

Filomena Reis

Theresa Rivera

Celine Sankary

Luci Schwedhelm

Grace Seica

Joanne Tung

Japanese Woman (name not available)

Ann Versalini

Maria Viamonte

Jeanne Vien

Min Thu Vu (1952) immigrated to the U.S. from Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in April 1975. She describes women's experiences as refugees and their role in decision-making.