Hana Kantor’s outlook on life is clear: “I am happy.
“Almost your entire family was murdered by the Nazis, you lived through terrible trauma, but for most of your life, and my entire life, you have been one of the happiest people I know,” said Jodi Kantor on CBS This Morning. Her three brothers were burned alive in a camp with other prisoners only days before the war ended. After the Nazis invaded Poland, she was forced into a Jewish ghetto and later a concentration camp. The 97-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor: Hana Kantor, the grandmother of Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor, survived the Holocaust and immigrated to America as a refugee after World War II. Innovative Elementary School in Las Vegas, where she serves as a co-teacher in pre-kindergarten through fifth-grade special education settings.” “The 11-year classroom veteran teaches at Kermit R. “A Colombian-born special education teacher in a Nevada elementary school has been named the 2021 National Teacher of the Year,” reported Axios. She worked housekeeping jobs to pay for her studies and later joined NASA in 2007.”ĭiana Trujillo was not the only immigrant from Colombia recognized for her contributions to America in 2021. Her parents were divorcing and as a 17-year-old, she decided to go to the United States, arriving with only $300 and not speaking any English. Her dreams of reaching space and wanting to understand the universe came as a young person in Cali, Colombia.
“The landing only marked the beginning of Perseverance's stop on Mars, but playing a leadership role in the historic mission to find life there was decades in the making for Trujillo. “When NASA's Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars last week, aerospace engineer Diana Trujillo, who is a flight director on the mission, said it took her some time to process that it had arrived on the red planet,” according to CBS News. An immigrant from Colombia played a crucial role in the mission. In March 2021, images of Mars from NASA’s rover captivated people on earth. Her dad had come over to be a grad student at Purdue in Indiana, and that’s how she and her family moved here when she was 8 years old.” By the end of her family’s first year here, she was fluent in English. “She learned the first part of the alphabet, ABCDEFGH, the first eight letters of the alphabet, on the plane on the way over to America, but that was her entire knowledge of English by the time she landed. “She came here at 8, speaking zero English,” reported MSNBC. The Mars Rover, the Pickup Truck and the Teacher of the Year: Linda Zhang, the chief engineer behind the new all-electric Ford F- 150, immigrated to America as a child from China.
(Xinhua/NASA/JPL-Caltech via Getty Images) Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images descent stage engines as it nears the Martian surface.
This image made available by NASA shows an illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover firing up its. citizens and other questions on the citizenship test that huge percentages of American-born citizens who call themselves patriots would flunk.” They tutored the health aides, housekeepers and cooks, drilling them on spelling, the constitutional amendments, the writers of the Federalist papers, the rights of U.S. “The residents raised their hands to volunteer. “These residents decided to do something extraordinary for the migrants who take such good care of them, who treat their senior status with an honor and value that our youth-worshipping, throwaway culture too often neglects,” reported the Washington Post. The effort produced nearly 90 new American citizens among the immigrants. Citizens: In an example of civil society at work, the residents of Goodwin House, a long-term care facility in northern Virginia, raised $40,000 and tutored immigrant workers from Cameroon, Haiti, Jamaica and elsewhere to pass the naturalization test. Retirees Show Appreciation for Immigrant Essential Workers and Help Them Become U.S.
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