I, Enrique Oltuski, was born in Cuba in 1933. As Jews in Poland, my parents were discriminated against, and they were put into isolated ghettos. By 1929, they had decided to escape to the New World when they arrived in Cuba. For the first years in Cuba, my father had many financial difficulties. He had started a shoe business that was yet to get started during the economic worldwide depression. My mother decided to bring me to Poland for a few years, and let her husband organize and stabilize his business. It took my father a couple of years to gather up enough money to send us back to Cuba. During the two years I spent in Poland, I grew close to my grandfather who introduced me to the Jewish religion. Unfortunately, the Nazis tragically murdered him during World War II. For the rest of my life, I stayed in Cuba, and I never returned to Poland.
Not many Cubans had the opportunity to go to an American University, but I was able to attend Miami University for four years. I studied Agriculture Engineering in college. College opened up my eyes to many other aspects in life. Miami was where I was first introduced to the Cuban Revolutionary movement. Many young Cubans were not pleased with the current government in Cuba. They
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Most importantly, I had missed most of my children’s births. My mother always wanted me to focus on my job in Shell and live a normal life with my wife and children. However, I knew that my formal education would be vital in my success as an underground revolutionary. I also had four beautiful children, my eldest, is one who had to give up the most for me. Enrique spent most of his young life, after the age of eighteen, fighting for the revolution. I had the hard task of being the leader of communication in the central part of Cuba. My wife also fed me, clothed me, and supported me when I spent three straight days in the battlefield with Che. I feel that I did not spend enough time with my children during their young years when it’s the most important time for them. I, myself, cannot maintain a goal for one-week mind that many years. When the revolution had gathered steam, and we were on the verge of taking power, the current regime had elevated their search for people like me. I also appreciate Castro entrusting in me a Ministers spot in the government. Every day I heard that the Cuban police had killed a new member of our group. She followed me everywhere during the heights of the revolution.
I was mainly impressed with Enrique’s devotion to what he believed in and to the love for his country’s people. She never questioned what I was doing and why I was doing it.
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2006
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8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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