Global Cleveland kicks off immigration Welcoming Week with interfaith prayer service
Global Cleveland kicks off immigration Welcoming Week with interfaith prayer service
-By Mary Kilpatrick, Cleveland.com
Published on 09-16-2019
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Religious leaders gathered Monday for an interfaith service to begin Welcoming Week, a celebration of immigrants in Cleveland. The series of events — organized by Global Cleveland, a non-profit that works to connect immigrants in Cleveland with economic opportunity — seeks to recognize newcomers’ contributions to Cleveland.
National Welcoming Week kicks off Sunday
National Welcoming Week kicks off Sunday
-By Courtney Shaw, News5Cleveland
Published on 09-15-2019
CLEVELAND — Sunday is the start of National Welcoming Week. The world campaign is designed to showcase immigrants and newcomers to their cities. In Cuyahoga County, the organization Global Cleveland has planned an entire week of events and promotions...
We the People - Cleveland Public Library segment Sept 13
We the People - Cleveland Public Library segment Sept 13
-By WKYC
Published on 09-13-2019
Greater Cleveland set to welcome immigrants in special week-long series of events
Greater Cleveland set to welcome immigrants in special week-long series of events
Global Cleveland leads the charge to introduce immigrants and other newcomers to the area.
-By Leon Bibb, WKYC
Published on 09-11-2019
CLEVELAND — Joe Cimperman and I walked through some of the world-renown Cultural Gardens of Cleveland without hesitation or a map because we knew the area very well, both of us having grown up in the area which celebrates the ethnic diversity of the people of the city...
Non-Profit to Host 'Welcoming Week' Celebrating Immigrants
Non-Profit to Host 'Welcoming Week' Celebrating Immigrants
-By RYAN SCHMELZ, Spectrum News 1
Published on 08-19-2019
CLEVELAND, Ohio—Global Cleveland wants to highlight and celebrate the impacts immigrants have on Cleveland.
- Global Cleveland is planning a Welcoming Week to celebrate local immigrant communities
- Global Cleveland is a non-profit that connects immigrants in Cleveland with local economic opportunities
- Welcoming Week will take place September 13– September 22
Cleveland To Host First Welcoming Week to Celebrate Immigrants
Cleveland To Host First Welcoming Week to Celebrate Immigrants
-By ELLA ABBOTT, WKSU
Published on 08-16-2019
Cleveland will be hosting its first Welcome Week next month. The event is intended to celebrate immigrants in the community. Global Cleveland is organizing the event which will be the first of its kind in Northeast Ohio...
Global Cleveland plans Welcoming Week in September to celebrate immigrants
Global Cleveland plans Welcoming Week in September to celebrate immigrants
-By Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland.com
Published on 08-16-2019
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Global Cleveland, a non-profit that works to connect immigrants in Cleveland with economic opportunity, plans to host a week-long celebration of immigrants’ contributions to Cleveland in September...
Welcoming Week casts Cleveland as a Global City
Welcoming Week casts Cleveland as a global city
-By Crain's Cleveland
Published on 08-11-2019
In an effort to highlight Cleveland as an international, globally connected city, Global Cleveland is hosting this year's Welcoming Week, a series of events to celebrate unity and the work of immigrants in the city.
DESCENDANTS OF DISPLACED PERSONS OFFERED NEW GLIMPSE INTO THEIR IMMIGRANT ROOTS
The U.S. Holocaust Museum and Cleveland’s Ukrainian Museum Archives partnered to create a searchable database of Displaced Persons camps. It will be presented October 24 at the Slovenian National Home.
Cleveland, Ohio, October 10, 2017 – If your family emigrated to Greater Cleveland from Europe after World War II, chances are they came from a Displaced Persons Camp. These were temporary settlements that housed millions of people uprooted by the war, including former POWs, Holocaust survivors and people forced to work as slave laborers in the Nazi Germany economy.
The camp experience became a big part of the immigrant odyssey for the “DPs”, as camp residents became known, yet it’s a story that has been largely hidden from their descendants. There was no easy way to trace people back to life in the DP camps--until now.
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has created a searchable database of information on the Displaced Persons Camps and the people who passed through them. Earlier this year, the Holocaust Museum partnered with the Ukrainian Museum-Archives in Cleveland to digitize the UMA’s extensive collection of DP Camp periodicals produced by Ukrainian refugees from 1945-51. Working with Kyiv-based Archival Data Systems, researchers have scanned more than 75,000 documents archived at the Tremont museum, creating a resource that scholars and others will now be able to access.
Officials from the Holocaust Museum will unveil the new resource and its search tools at a special presentation in Cleveland, a city that resettled thousands of displaced persons. “Solving the Mystery: Tracing Your Family’s Path from a Displaced Persons Camp,” starts at 6 p.m. Tuesday, October 24 at the Slovenian National Home, 6409 St. Clair Avenue.
The event is co-sponsored by Global Cleveland and the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage. Admission is free and light refreshments will be served.
Andrew Fedynsky, the director of the Ukrainian Museum Archives, promises an evening that could help complete many a family tree in Northeast Ohio.
Please RSVP to the Ukrainian Museum Archives by calling 216 781-4329 or via e-mail [email protected].
