The Freedom Tower honors its history as the home of the Cuban Refugee Center by providing a searchable database of individuals who came to Miami through Operation Pedro Pan. From 1960 to 1962, approximately 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minors arrived in the United States to escape communism. Miami Dade College is committed to gathering information on these individuals, providing a central, public format for museum visitors to memorialize, honor, and remember this significant part of American history.
To add yourself or a relative to the Freedom Tower’s ever-growing Operation Pedro Pan registry, please fill out the form below.
Share Your Operation Pedro Pan Story
Please use the space below to tell us your story.
License and Release
By submitting your story (“Story”) to Miami Dade College (MDC), you represent/warrant and agree to the following:
- You are at least 18 years old.
- You are the author of the Story, which is your original work and does not constitute an infringement of any valid copyright, and MDC’s rights to use the Story, as described in the next paragraph, will not infringe upon or violate any rights of any third party.
- You grant MDC a royalty-free, nonexclusive, irrevocable license to copy, create derivative works, and publicly distribute, display and perform the Story worldwide in any and all formats, whether in print or electronically.
- The Story is provided to MDC without any expectation of compensation, either now or in the future, and you hereby waive any claim against MDC for compensation.
- MDC may publish your name in connection with the Story.
- For any other individual identified in the Story, you have received his/her written consent.