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Oral history interview with Anna Giurgiev [Sound Recording 01]
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- 2019-06-07 (Creation)
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WAV; 01:41:33
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Anna Giurgiev was born in Lapus, Romania, in 1958. In 1977, she and Sava Giurgiev were married; they later had two children. In 1984, Sava Giurgiev fled to the United States, and in 1986, the family was reunited in Chicago, Illinois. In 1992, Anna Giurgiev earned a nursing degree from the College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois. In 1997, the family moved to Florida, and in the early 2000s, they settled in the Portland, Oregon, area. She worked as a nurse and in payroll.
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Session 1. This oral history interview with Anna Giurgiev was conducted by Caitlyn Malik and Sankar Raman on June 7, 2019. The interview was recorded for The Immigrant Story, an organization that documents and archives the stories of immigrants and refugees in the United States. One of Giurgiev's daughters, Vesna Giurgiev, was also present.
In this interview, Giurgiev discusses her family background and early life in communist Romania, including working on a farm, her education, and the national athletics program. She speaks about her marriage to Sava Giurgiev and describes their wedding. She talks about rationing and traveling to Yugoslavia to buy food. She describes Sava Giurgiev's flight from Romania and talks about reuniting with him in Chicago, Illinois. She describes the process of getting a visa to the United States. She also looks at photographs and talks about them. She talks about adjusting to life in the U.S., about earning her nursing degree, and about working in Chicago and in Florida. She then talks about the reasons the family moved to the Portland, Oregon, area. She closes the interview by reflecting on her experiences as a Romanian immigrant and talking about her hopes for her children.
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Joint copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society and The Immigrant Story. Use is allowed according to the following statement: In Copyright – Educational Use Permitted, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
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- English
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- Malik, Caitlyn (Contributor)
- Raman, Sankar (Contributor)