Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Marina Ochoa keeps a handful of photos of her little brother in a faded yellow envelope. She has a black-and-white snapshot of him as a baby and some color portraits of him as a successful banker in Miami, Florida. And then there's one of him as a 7-year-old, about to be airlifted out of Cuba. That was the last time she ever saw him. "I went to the airport to see him off," the Cuban filmmaker said at her Havana home. Her brother Frank was one of 14,000 Cuban children quietly sent to the United States between 1960 and 1962, at the start of Fidel Castro's revolution.
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14,000 Cuban children sent to U.S. at start of Castro's revolution
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Mixed feelings remain about Operation Peter Pan
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Some families were never reunited
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Others have started to reach out again as restrictions are lifted
"My father thought, '@placeholder won't put up with this radical revolution.'