Irene Diefenbach was born on September 2, 1910 in Pennsylvania to Slovak immigrants, Karol and Danica Dalibor. The Dalibors worked on a small dairy farm, but when Irene and her two siblings were [...]
Jacek Sadowski was born on July 4, 1914 in a small village in Poland. His parents, Gustaw Sadowski and Hania Nowak, were farmers, and Jacek was the youngest of eight children. Unfortunately, [...]
Marie Bosko was born on July 4, 1912 in Chicago to Dusan Cizek and Alena Holub. Both Dusan and Alena were immigrants from Czechoslovakia, but they met and married in Chicago. Dusan worked as a [...]
Jadwiga Sokal was born on February 26, 1914 in Poland to Wladek and Kasia Majewski. Jadwiga went to grammar school and then found a job in a pastry shop, where she often waited on a young man, [...]
Gonzolo Rochez was born in Texas on February 2, 1908 to Fernando and Sonia Rochez. He likes to say that he was born “a few years” after the U.S. “took over” Texas from Mexico, though in reality, [...]
Hedda Woods was born in Chicago on October 25, 1905 to Ulla Ostberg and Birger Haugen, both immigrants from Norway. Soon after they married in Alesund, Norway, Ulla and Birger decided to come to [...]
Herman Neumacher was born on February 2, 1903 in Chicago. The names of his parents are unknown, but he is thought to be of Irish and German descent. He was the youngest of ten children, and his [...]
Mafalda Jedynak was born in Chicago on March 15, 1909 to Mario and Luisa Scarsi, both of whom were Italian immigrants. Mafalda says that there were five children in the family, though she thinks [...]
Eugenia Boyd was born on June 20, 1906 in Austria-Hungary to Anton Herzog and Marie Beran and was one of nine children. When Eugenia was very little, the family immigrated to America and made [...]
Ruth Hughes was born on June 4, 1906 in Chicago to Virginia Ward and Raymond Oveson. She had three brothers: Walter, Raymond, Jr., and Albert, though both Raymond, Jr. and Albert died as [...]
