Helen Hong Wong

WONG Helen

 

Helen Hong WONG

1928 from Hong Kong

Helen Hong Wong and her husband came to America and were detained on Angel Island for a month. “We all answered wrong at the immigration hearing. They asked all kinds of questions, about the type of stove we used in the village, and even how many steps in the stairs. How could anyone remember all that?”

(Portrait by Meifeng Yu, SFSU 2016)