Episode 36: Barbara Palacios Wessels - An Operación Pedro Pan Survivor

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Producer

Sebastian Garcia

Description

In Part 2 of “Operación Pedro Pan: The Voices and Stories of Cuba’s Child Exodus—A Knights HistoryCast Mini-Series,” the Department of History’s Sebastian Garcia talked with Barbara Palacios Wessels, a Pedro Pan, who arrived in the United States from Cuba via Operación Pedro Pan (Operation Peter Pan) on September 27, 1962, with her two younger siblings. Barbara was also a panelist from Day 1, Panel 2, which featured “community experts (survivors) that shared their personal perspectives to aid our understanding of the profound impact of Pedro Pan on their lives” at the esteemed, conspicuous, and powerful “Operación Pedro Pan: Honoring the Cultural, Historical Legacy of Cuba’s Child Exodus” Two-Day Program that Florida Humanities, UCF’s Department of English and Department of Modern Languages and Literatures sponsored (see https://cah.ucf.edu/pedro-pan/ for more details on sponsors and the program in general).

In one of the most personal, emotional, riveting, and powerful Knights HistoryCast episodes ever, Barbara recounts her life, her story, and how she is a part of the history of Operación Pedro Pan forever.

Narrator

Sebastian Garcia

Interviewer

Sebastian Garcia

Interviewee

Barbara Palacios Wessels

Date Created

5-30-2023

Keywords

History, UCF, University of Central Florida, history podcast, UCF history podcast, Knights Historycast, podcasting, Cuba, Operation Peter Pan, Operación Pedro Pan, Pedro Pan, Cuban history, Cubans, Cuban-American, Cuban-American history, US-Cuban history, US-Cuba relations, child exodus, Cuba’s child exodus, The Cuban Diaspora, 20th century history, cultural history, Cuban culture, historical legacies, legacy, Pedro Pan legacy, Latin American history, Immigration, Immigration history, minors, refugees, exiles, displaced persons, 90 miles, Freedom Flights, Mariel Boatlift, Special Period, Cuban emigration, Cuban immigration, waves, Cuban exodus, Fidel Castro, Catholicism, Catholics, foster families, Western Hemisphere, Shelbyville, Indiana, family history, personal history, oral history, the American Dream, education

Subjects

History, UCF, University of Central Florida, history podcast, UCF history podcast, Knights Historycast, podcasting, Cuba, Operation Peter Pan, Operación Pedro Pan, Pedro Pan, Cuban history, Cubans, Cuban-American, Cuban-American history, US-Cuban history, US-Cuba relations, child exodus, Cuba’s child exodus, The Cuban Diaspora, 20th century history, cultural history, Cuban culture, historical legacies, legacy, Pedro Pan legacy, Latin American history, Immigration, Immigration history, minors, refugees, exiles, displaced persons, 90 miles, Freedom Flights, Mariel Boatlift, Special Period, Cuban emigration, Cuban immigration, waves, Cuban exodus, Fidel Castro, Catholicism, Catholics, foster families, Western Hemisphere, Shelbyville, Indiana, family history, personal history, oral history, the American Dream, education

Length of Episode

58:41

Episode 36: Barbara Palacios Wessels - An Operación Pedro Pan Survivor


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