Posted on 06/23/2021 6:43:26 PM PDT by marshmallow
Miguel Bezos attended the Delaware school after arriving from Cuba as an unaccompanied child
Miguel Bezos, the immigrant father of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, has donated US$12 million to a Catholic school in Delaware that housed and educated him when he arrived as an unaccompanied minor from Cuba in the early 1960s.
The senior Bezos attended Salesianum School in Wilmington, Delaware, after fleeing post-Revolution Cuba, along with over 14,000 other minors brought to the U.S. through Operation Pedro Pan, a program organized by the Catholic Church with the help of the U.S. government.
Because Catholic social services agencies in Miami receiving the Cuban minors were overwhelmed, dioceses throughout the country began sending children to Catholic facilities and foster families throughout the country. Bezos ended up at a home for boys in Wilmington.
Back then, Father James P. Byrne, of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, was put in charge of Casa de Sales, where Bezos was welcomed with other Cuban boys.
"There was a priest in charge of us, and it was a tremendous experience for me. I'm sure you've heard sad stories about what terrible experiences some of the Peter Pan kids had, but for us in Wilmington, we had each other, and we became very close," Bezos said in a 2016 interview posted on the website of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
"To this day, a lot of us still talk to each other and visit once in a while," he said. "We also visit with the priest that was in charge of us. In the middle of all the chaos, it was a wonderful experience."
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Refreshing.
For some reason, I always those Bezos sounded like a Greek name. Had no idea they were Cuban refugees. Seems they fared a little better than they would have in the Castros’ s—hole.
Interesting.
Thanks for posting. Interesting. Jeff Beelzebub has a father with a conscience?
I’ll have to look it up, but I think Miguel Bezos is the billionaire’s stepdad.
God bless you Miguel and thank you. I graduated from Salesianum in the early 60’s. I vaguely remember this program, but looking back, it was the right thing to do for these kids.
I think evil Bezos is a Jew with no real religion .
Bkmk
Very nice! Our bishop is actually a “Pedro Pan” alum…he was sent to Indiana, IIRC. Very different from Castro-era Cuba, I’m sure!
Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen [Bezos] was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on January 12, 1964, the son of Jacklyn... and [Danish-American] Theodore Jørgensen.. At the time of his birth, his mother was... 17... and his father was 19. ... After his parents divorced, his mother married Cuban immigrant Miguel "Mike" Bezos in April 1968... Mike adopted four-year-old Jorgensen, whose surname was then changed to Bezos.
Interesting. Thanks. A Dane adopted by a Cuban... and I mistakenly thought he was a Greek. Go figure.
Where are the usual Protestant cheap shots at Catholic threads?
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