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My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

— Susan Lucci

As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and…

— Eugene Jarecki

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking…

— Daniel Nathans

My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an…

— David Lee

My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where…

— William Levy

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

— Arthur Rock

I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts…

— Anita Brookner

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.

— Roald Hoffmann

My parents left Iran in 1979 and moved to France and then moved to the U.S. My brother was born in France and I…

— Rostam Batmanglij

My family reached the United States before the Holocaust. Both of my parents emigrated from Russia as young children. My grandparents were fleeing religious…

— Jan Schakowsky

My parents emigrated from Poland in 1924 with my brother, who was a few months old. They were from a simple family of Polish…

— Francois Englert

My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism.

— Tom Hollander