Tag: Pedro Pan
Birthday celebration at Matecumbe Camp
Javier Llorens and other boys from Operation Pedro Pan blow birthday candles at Matecumbe Camp.
Graciela Méndez Plasencia (Anrrich)
Graciela Méndez Plasencia and her sister Lourdes arrived as part of Operation Pedro Pan September 1, 1961 and were relocated to New York.
Birthday Card to Pedro Pan Oscar Candelaria
Oscar Candelarias’s birthday card from his parents in Cuba. This archival material is avialable to view at Freedom Tower in the exhibit “Libertad”
Pedro Pan girls at Florida City
Pedro Pan sisters Dora and Lilia Li Lam at Florida City.
Lilia and Bertha Serio Varona
Photographs of Lilia and Bertha Serio Varona with their family in the airport Jose Marti of Havana boarding the plane as part of Operation Pedro
Gerardo Simms
Photographs from Gerardo Simms at Camp Matecumbe as part of the Pedro Pan Program. Gerardo Simms became the first black Cuban persecutor for the Dade
The Voice Newspaper
The Voice Newspaper was published by the Archdiocese of Miami from 1959 to 1990.