Eloisa Echazabal
name: label: Collection Interviewer
content: Velasquez, Steve
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content: Exiles in America: Cuban Pedro Pans and Balseros Collection
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content: Exiles in America: Cuban Pedro Pans and Balseros Collection / Series 1: Oral History Interviews
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content: 2014 November 19
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content: Item AC01377-BDA0002
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Audio
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content: Eloisa Echazábal was born in Havana, Cuba. As a teenager, Eloisa was sent to Florida with her younger sister and 3 8-years old cousins. The children arrived to Florida in 1961, where George Guarch was waiting for them. After their paperwork was processed, Guarch drove them to Kendall Camp, where they stayed for 7 days. On September 13 Eloisa and her sister were transferred to Buffalo, New York, while their three cousins were taken to an orphanage in Richmond, Virginia. The girls were later taken to a foster home, where they lived with their foster family for 7 months. After 9 months apart, the girls were finally reunited with their parents in Miami. Eloisa still lives in Miami and is one of the founders of the Pedro Pan Group Inc.