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Many Roads to HereThe Immigrant Story Live Podcast IIWelcome to The Immigrant Story Live, where we feature stories from the stage. In each episode of this new series we weave together three stories that were originallyperformed at an Immigrant Story Live Event.
For episode two of this series, you’ll hear from three storytellers — Ghassan Bin Hammam, Rama Youssef, and Meghna Damani – who each found themselves trapped in situations they never could have expected.
A warning to our listening, this episode contains descriptions of violence and suicidal ideation, so please take care while listening.
Many Roads to Here is a production of The Im...
2024-05-1748 min
Many Roads to HereThe Immigrant Story Live PodcastIntroducing, The Immigrant Story Live, our new series that brings you voices from the stage. In 2019, the Immigrant Story began hosting live storytelling events in the Portland, Oregon area, bringing together musicians and storytellers from around the world for evenings of celebration and reflection. Every year, The Immigrant Story produces 2 new live events, and in the four years since its launch, has hosted 10 shows with 26 storytellers from 22 different countries. In our new series, we present selections from these events in themed, 45-minute episodes.
In our first episode, you’ll hear from three storytellers, Mariamou Abdoulaye, Hussein Al-Baiaty, and...
2023-09-1347 min
Many Roads to HereThere is Surviving and There is LivingSaron Khut was only ten years old when he and his family fled the Khmer Rouge-led genocide in Cambodia. His mother’s strength and a key decision one scary night to take a risk for freedom has guided his sense of purpose ever since.
Many Roads to Here is a production of The Immigrant Story, a nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon. This episode was written by Degen Larkin and Fran Silverman. Our audio editing was done by Degen Larkin assisted by Gregg Palmer and Richard March. Original music by Corey Larkin. The original interview was conducted in Fall of 2020 by Gar...
2022-08-3130 min
Many Roads to HereJewish Children Please Stand UpLeslie and Eva Aigner’s childhood were marked by horror. Born in different parts of Czechoslovakia as Nazi soldiers took hold, the two took very different paths to survival; both were saved by their families’ strength, shocking kindness by strangers at key moments, and their own inner audacity to survive.
Leslie Aigner died in August of 2021. We are grateful to be able to share his story with you. To learn more about the Aigner’s experiences, read Elizabeth Mehren’s story “Miracles, Memories and a Message” on our website.
Many thanks to Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education for collabora...
2021-12-0338 min
Many Roads to HereI Can Survive AnythingTsering Dolma was forced to interrupt her life twice, first, when she had to flee Tibet for Nepal when the Chinese took control and then again when her father made a decision she didn’t know about. But she never gave up on a desire to advance her education even while living her life in exile in the U.S.
Many Roads to Here is a production of The Immigrant Story, in collaboration with Portland Radio Project. This episode was written by Degen Larkin and Fran Silverman. Our audio editing was done by Rick March and Kent Randles, assisted by Gord...
2021-03-3121 min
Many Roads to HereThere is still work to doDivine Irambona loves to challenge herself. Maybe because her life was a struggle from the moment she was born. Her mother died shortly after giving birth to Divine, in a Tanzanian refugee camp. She grew up walking miles to get to school and faced horrifying prejudice when she immigrated to the U.S.
To get to where she is today, Divine has turned to instincts and courage to survive, as well as the promise of her name. Irambona, or “to be seen,” given to Divine as her mother’s final wish, serves as a guidebook to her life.
This episode was writ...
2021-01-0627 min
Many Roads to HereThere Is a Hopeful TomorrowThings were going well for Jenny Munezero in Portland, Oregon. She was working in a rewarding career and engaged to a man she adored. But as the two families moved forward with wedding plans, and worked out the details of her dowry, Jenny found herself struggling to keep up with the details of the Burundi customs. Two months after she was born there, war broke out. Her parents, fearful for their lives in the genocide, fled, leaving Jenny behind. Much of how she survived still remains a mystery. There was a lot she didn’t know about herself -- until sh...
2020-10-0221 min