Object Details
- Collection Interviewer
- Velasquez, Steve
- See more items in
- Exiles in America: Cuban Pedro Pans and Balseros Collection
- Exiles in America: Cuban Pedro Pans and Balseros Collection / Series 1: Oral History Interviews
- Sponsor
- The project was funded by the Consortium for the American Experience. The digitization of the addendum materials (Series 3) was made possible through a grant from the Smithsonian Latino Center's Latino Initiatives Pool (2020).
- Date
- 2014 August 9
- Container
- Item AC1377-BDA0009
- Archival Repository
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Type
- Archival materials
- Audio
- Collection Citation
- Exiles in America: Cuban Pedro Pans and Balseros, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Scope and Contents
- Margarita Prats was born on February 16, 1953 and Lola Prats was born on June 16, 1955 in Camagüey, Cuba. They were sent out of Cuba and arrived to Florida in 1961. The sisters were sent to live in an orphanage and later with a foster family. They got reunited with their parents 4 years later. The family then settled in Bethesda, Maryland where the Prats still live.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research. Interviews and supporting documentation available only in the Smithsonian Institution Digital Asset Management System (DAMS). Correspondence is available for access (physically and digitally).
- Record ID
- ebl-1503512114707-1503512114711-2
