A Newberg woman bears witness to world history

104-year-old Antonia White immigrates to the United States from war-torn Austria after World War I

Photo By: Gary AllenMemories of the past —
Antonia White displays the passenger list of the President Roosevelt, the ship that the then-18-year-old Austrian woman sailed on to reach America in 1923.
   Just shy of her 18th birthday, Antonia Maurer boarded a ship alone and left behind everything she knew: her family, her friends, her tight-knit community with its familiar language, and her war-ravaged country.



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