Claudia's story

This is the story of my mother-in-law Claudia, who today lives in Slovakia and her family's migration story.

Her grandfather Augustín was from a very poor Slovakian village, Sag (today called Sasinkovo). At that time, it was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. He saw no opportunities to earn money and decided to migrate to New York around 1900. There he met a Slovak woman, Terezia, who came t…