Interview with Susilandia deJesus
Date2022 September 28
Mediumborn digital audio file
DimensionsDuration: 19 Minutes, 45 Seconds
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineCommunity History Project Collection
DescriptionInterview with Susilandia deJesus. Interviewed by Kathleen Capon on September 28, 2022 at Catholic Charities Diocese New London office, New London. Translated by Yahaira [last name unknown]. She was interviewed as part of the Connecticut Historical Society's Community History Project discussing her experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
This interview is conducted in English and Spanish and includes a person translating the conversation.
Susilandia is a single mom with four children. She also struggles with a health condition which prevents her from working. She attends adult education classes to learn English.
Susilandia and her children contracted COVID. She had COVID when she was supposed to have surgery.
She did receive the vaccine and had a bad reaction but chose not to vaccinate her children out of fear that they would have a negative reaction to the vaccine.
She described the pandemic as very scary and sad.
This interview is conducted in English and Spanish and includes a person translating the conversation.
Susilandia is a single mom with four children. She also struggles with a health condition which prevents her from working. She attends adult education classes to learn English.
Susilandia and her children contracted COVID. She had COVID when she was supposed to have surgery.
She did receive the vaccine and had a bad reaction but chose not to vaccinate her children out of fear that they would have a negative reaction to the vaccine.
She described the pandemic as very scary and sad.
Object number2022.20.42
NotesSubject Note: The Connecticut Historical Society’s Community History Project (CHP) is a public-facing initiative, focused on contemporary collecting, gathering items of the recent past as well as from events happening today. This program developed community historians to identify, document, and preserve their experiences as residents of Connecticut, and to share these experiences during a series of community presentations. The project focused on the impact of Covid-19 on Connecticans, particularly on Black and Brown communities, funeral homes, and on nursing home and elder care populations.Cataloging Note: This cataloging project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-249472-OMS-21.
Subject Terms
- New London
- People of color
- Oral history
- Interviews
- COVID-19 (Disease)
- COVID-19 (Disease)
- COVID-19 Pandemic (2020)
- Oral narratives
- Hispanic people
- Women
- Noncitizens
- Mother
- Fear
- Vaccines
- Family
- Unemployed
- Unemployment
- Musculoskeletal System--injuries
- Spanish language
- Interviews and Oral Histories
- Born Digital Audio
- Community History Project IMLS Museums for America Grant
- COVID-19 Pandemic Collection
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- COVID-19 Pandemic Oral History Interviews (Community History Project), 2022-2023
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