My family’s migration story to the United States starts in the 1870s, when my mother’s father’s grandmother came to New York City from Austria. This generation of my family grew up in Ridgewood and Bushwick section of Brooklyn. My family has been and still is Jewish, but my mother’s father’s family was largely secular because …

The Avrakh family came to America when I was only four months old. We lived in Riga, which is the capital city of Latvia. The country of Latvia had a great amount of anti-semitism that my Jewish family had to endure. We had to go through a lot of religious persecution so we decided to …

My paternal grandmother first emigrated from Tai Shan, China to American in November of 1985, with the help of her younger sister. Grandma Li stayed with her sister and her husband in Whitestone, where they still currently live. In the spring of 1987, my grandma’s request to bring my dad and my twin fraternal aunts …

My parents both grew up in China in the midst of the Cultural Revolution. Life in the villages was harsh and messy and required a collaborated effort to make ends meet. People were assigned tasks – women and children generally performed household chores and farmwork, men tilled in the fields and the elderly cooked in …