Community Voices: The Postville Oral History Project Recording with Barbara Herzmann
Barbara Herzmann and her husband bought a farm near Postville in 1972, and she has lived there ever since. She worked at the Postville elementary school for 27 years before retiring in 2012. In the interview, Barbara discusses the changes in Postville and especially within the school as students fro...
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ftunortherniowa:oai:scholarworks.uni.edu:postville_oralhistory-1001 2023-06-11T04:16:12+02:00 Community Voices: The Postville Oral History Project Recording with Barbara Herzmann Herzmann, Barbara 2014-10-27T07:00:00Z audio/mpeg https://scholarworks.uni.edu/postville_oralhistory/2 https://scholarworks.uni.edu/context/postville_oralhistory/article/1001/type/native/viewcontent/Herzmann_B_10272014.mp3 https://scholarworks.uni.edu/context/postville_oralhistory/article/1001/filename/0/type/additional/viewcontent/Transcript.pdf en eng UNI ScholarWorks https://scholarworks.uni.edu/postville_oralhistory/2 https://scholarworks.uni.edu/context/postville_oralhistory/article/1001/type/native/viewcontent/Herzmann_B_10272014.mp3 https://scholarworks.uni.edu/context/postville_oralhistory/article/1001/filename/0/type/additional/viewcontent/Transcript.pdf ©2014 The Postville Project http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Community Voices: Postville Project Oral Histories Herzmann Barbara--Interviews; Postville Immigration Raid Postville Iowa 2008 Public Affairs Public Policy and Public Administration United States History text 2014 ftunortherniowa 2023-05-06T22:47:45Z Barbara Herzmann and her husband bought a farm near Postville in 1972, and she has lived there ever since. She worked at the Postville elementary school for 27 years before retiring in 2012. In the interview, Barbara discusses the changes in Postville and especially within the school as students from Russia, Ukraine, Mexico, Guatemala, and many other countries came to rural Iowa. The day of the May 12th, 2008 ICE raid, Barbara was teaching third grade and shares emails and recollections of the events that occurred over the next couple days. She also offers insight into how she came to understand the sacrifices and struggles of undocumented immigrants. Before the raid, Barbara, along with some other teachers, were able to take a tour of Agriprocessors and she shared that experience in the interview as well. Finally, Barbara closes the interview with her hopes for the future of Postville. https://scholarworks.uni.edu/postville_oralhistory/1001/thumbnail.jpg Text Postville University of Northern Iowa: UNI ScholarWorks Postville ENVELOPE(-59.773,-59.773,54.908,54.908) |
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Barbara Herzmann and her husband bought a farm near Postville in 1972, and she has lived there ever since. She worked at the Postville elementary school for 27 years before retiring in 2012. In the interview, Barbara discusses the changes in Postville and especially within the school as students from Russia, Ukraine, Mexico, Guatemala, and many other countries came to rural Iowa. The day of the May 12th, 2008 ICE raid, Barbara was teaching third grade and shares emails and recollections of the events that occurred over the next couple days. She also offers insight into how she came to understand the sacrifices and struggles of undocumented immigrants. Before the raid, Barbara, along with some other teachers, were able to take a tour of Agriprocessors and she shared that experience in the interview as well. Finally, Barbara closes the interview with her hopes for the future of Postville. https://scholarworks.uni.edu/postville_oralhistory/1001/thumbnail.jpg |
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