Nov. 17, 2022 In January 2021, HORA has launched the work on the third project about the Romanian Immigration in Minnesota. The goal of this project is to document Romanian immigration to Minnesota after the fall of communism in 1989, by recording, transcribing, and preserving critical elements of Romanian immigrants’ experiences in settling to Minnesota. […]
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June 30, 2022 to October 1, 2022 HORA was happy to support The Romanian American National Heritage Award – 6th edition initiative by American Romanian Cultural Society. As ARCS community partners we strongly encourage high school students with Romanian heritage or background to participate in the annual competition. This award recognizes exceptional contributions to the
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We had the pleasure of receiving the visit of Dr Taehyun Oum at the Romanian American Cultural Center. He is the leading Romanian Studies scholar in South Korea and a professor at the Hankuk University of International Studies in Seoul. Dr. Oum is a renowned translator of Romanian language. He had translated and published in
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Thank you to all our guests who joined us at the Chaska Community Center Theater for a screening of the documentary Through the Iron Curtain: From Romania. This documentary uses testimonies of those who lived and suffered under the oppressive Communist regime in post-World War II Romania. Along with unique experiences shared by immigrants themselves,
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In collaboration with The Immigration Research Fund (IRF), we organized virtual screenings of our two immigration documentaries, ‘A Thousand Dollars and Back’ and ‘Through the Iron Curtain-From Romania’. These film screenings took place on August 30, 2020 and on October 31, 2020
This award was given to HORA for excellence in documenting Romanian immigration to the US. It was presented at the Romanian Embassy in Washington, DC.
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Through the Iron Curtain – From Romania documentary was born from fifteen oral history recordings completed by HORA in collaboration with Town Square Television. The documentary film was produced by HORA in collaboration with Twin CIties Television. Using testimonies of those who suffered through the Communist era under an oppressive regime, the documentary captures the
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World premiere of HORA’s documentary on early Romanian immigration to the Twin Cities at the Dakota Historical Society.
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Two presentations were given, “Early Romanian Immigration to the Twin Cities” by Vicki Albu, a genealogist affiliated with the University of Minnesota and the Immigration Research Center, and “Castles of Transylvania” by Raluca Octav, affiliated with the Romanian Institute of Orthodox Theology and Spirituality, New York. The event took place at the Elmer L. Andersen
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