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 November 19
- Container
- Item AC01377-BDA0002
- 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
- Eloisa Echazábal was born in Havana, Cuba. As a teenager, Eloisa was sent to Florida with her younger sister and 3 8-years old cousins. The children arrived to Florida in 1961, where George Guarch was waiting for them. After their paperwork was processed, Guarch drove them to Kendall Camp, where they stayed for 7 days. On September 13 Eloisa and her sister were transferred to Buffalo, New York, while their three cousins were taken to an orphanage in Richmond, Virginia. The girls were later taken to a foster home, where they lived with their foster family for 7 months. After 9 months apart, the girls were finally reunited with their parents in Miami. Eloisa still lives in Miami and is one of the founders of the Pedro Pan Group Inc.
- 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-1503512114707-1503512114710-3
