Operation Peter Pan - Wikipedia
Operation Peter Pan (or Operación Pedro Pan) was a clandestine exodus of over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minors ages 6 to 18 to the United States over a two-year span from 1960 to 1962.
The Secret Cold War Program That Airlifted Cuban Kids to the U.S ...
2019年4月29日 · Eire is referring to the 14,000 unaccompanied children brought to the United States from Cuba during Operation Peter Pan, a covert program that helped school-age kids escape repression in Cuba.
Pedro Pan: A children’s exodus from Cuba - Smithsonian Institution
2017年7月11日 · But one story that is not often told is that of the thousands of unaccompanied children who were sent from Cuba to Miami in the early 1960s, as part of a U.S. government program called Operation Pedro Pan.
Operation Peter Pan: Over 14,000 Cuban children saved from …
2021年1月6日 · Operation Peter Pan: Over 14,000 Cuban children saved from Castro’s dictatorship. The author, one of the girls sent to the U.S. in Operation Peter Pan, shares her perspective about the largest exodus of minors in the history of the Western Hemisphere. By Ileana Fuentes. Originally published in Spanish on December 26, 2020 in CubaNet News.
The Forgotten Victims of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Pact
2022年10月18日 · Between 1960 and 1962, some 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children were evacuated to the United States in an airlift dubbed Operation Pedro Pan. Some of them were never reunited with their families.
Children Of Cuba Remember Their Flight To America : NPR
2011年11月19日 · Operation Pedro Pan shaped the lives of a generation of Cuban-Americans. Between 1960 and 1962, the program airlifted more than 14,000 Cuban children from Havana to the U.S. Fifty...
Cuba's 'Peter Pans' Remember Childhood Exodus - National …
2015年8月14日 · Mercedes Dash still hasn’t gone home. Dash was a member of Operation Pedro Pan, a program that ran from 1960 to 1962 and airlifted more than 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children to the U.S. to...
Operation Peter Pan, an idea conceived by a young, Irish Catholic priest, brought over 14,000 children to the United States in a period of 23 months. The operation took place under the greatest discretion in order to hide the identities of those who sent their children to the United States, many of them anti-Castro
How a secret operation brought Cuban children to Colorado
2024年10月15日 · It was 1962, and Welch was one of more than 14,000 children who left the island through a secret operation known as "Pedro Pan," or Peter Pan, in English. It was likely the largest exodus of unaccompanied children in history.
Operation Pedro Pan: The Migration of Unaccompanied Cuban …
The Cuban children’s exodus would later become known as Operation Pedro Pan; the federally funded and Catholic Church–administered program that was established to care for these children would be called the Cuban Children’s Program.