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Author: Veronica Lawlor
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn their own words, coupled with hand-painted collage illustrations, immigrants recall their arrival in the United States. Includes brief biographies and facts about the Ellis Island Oral History Project.
Author: Kimberly Weinberger
Publisher: Mondo Pub
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781572558120
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElda Willitts recounts for the Ellis Island Oral History Project her childhood journey to America from Italy in 1916.
Author: Veronica Lawlor
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Published: 1995-01
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ISBN-13: 9780605007086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Emmy E. Werner
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1597976342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than twelve million immigrants, many of them children, passed through Ellis Island's gates between 1892 and 1954. Children also came through the "Guardian of the Western Gate," the detention center on Angel Island in California that was designed to keep Chinese immigrants out of the United States. Based on the oral histories of fifty children who came to the United States before 1950, this book chronicles their American odyssey against the backdrop of World Wars I and II, the rise and fall of Hitler's Third Reich, and the hardships of the Great Depression. Ranging in age from four to sixteen years old, the children hailed from Northern, Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe; the Middle East; and China. Across ethnic lines, the child immigrants' life stories tell a remarkable tale of human resilience. The sources of family and community support that they relied on, their educational aims and accomplishments, their hard work, and their optimism about the future are just as crucial today for the new immigrants of the twenty-first century. These personal narratives offer unique perspectives on the psychological experience of being an immigrant child and its impact on later development and well-being. They chronicle the joys and sorrows, the aspirations and achievements, and the challenges that these small strangers faced while becoming grown citizens.
Author: Malgorzata Szejnert
Publisher: Scribe Us
Published: 2022-09-06
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781957363028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA dramatic, multi-vocal account of the personal agonies and ecstasies that played out within the walls of Ellis Island, as told by Poland's greatest living journalist. This is the people's history of Ellis Island--the people who passed through it, and the people who were turned away from it. From Annie Moore, the Irishwoman who was the first to be processed there, to Arne Peterssen, the Norwegian who was the last to be taken away from the island via the official ferry boat in 1954, Ellis Island weaves together the personal experiences of forgotten individuals with those who live on in history: Fiorello La Guardia, Lee Iacocca, and other American leaders whose paths led them to the Island for various reasons through the years. Award-winning journalist Małgorzata Szejnert draws on unpublished testimonies, memoirs, archival photographs, and correspondence from many internees and immigrants, including Russians, Italians, Jews, Japanese, Germans, and Poles. At the book's core is a trove of personal letters from immigrants to their loved ones back home--letters which were confiscated and never delivered, finally discovered in a basement in Warsaw. But also brought to life are the Ellis Island employees: the doctors, nurses, commissioners, interpreters, social care workers, and even chaperones, who controlled the fates of these émigrés--often basing their decisions on pseudo-scientific ideas about race, gender, and disability. Sometimes families were broken up, and new arrivals were detained and quarantined for days, weeks, or even months. All told, the island compound spent longer as an internment camp than as a migration way-point--in addition to filling other roles through the years, including that of rescue station in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Now brought back to life by a master storyteller, this is a story of a place and its people, steeped in politics and history, that reshaped the United States.
Author: Peter M. Coan
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780816034147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents first-hand accounts from the last surviving immigrants
Author: Gwenyth Swain
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Published: 2012-03-01
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1629791784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn original collection of voices, filled with hope and tears, chronicles the history of Ellis Island and the people it served. Indians, settlers, immigrants, inspectors, doctors, nurses, cooks, and social workers all played a big part in that history. Author Gwenyth Swain reimagines the lives of those who landed, lived, and worked on the island through fictional letters, monologues, dialogues, and e-mails, basing them on historical documentation and real-life people. In doing so, she creates a moving picture of their struggles and triumphs. Illustrated with poignant and affecting photographs, this is a unique exploration of Ellis Island's history. Includes further resources, bibliography, and source notes.
Author: Lorie Conway
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2010-10-05
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0062046195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA century ago, in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, one of the world's greatest public hospitals was built. Massive and modern, the hospital's twenty-two state-of-the-art buildings were crammed onto two small islands, man-made from the rock and dirt excavated during the building of the New York subway. As America's first line of defense against immigrant-borne disease, the hospital was where the germs of the world converged. The Ellis Island hospital was at once welcoming and foreboding—a fateful crossroad for hundreds of thousands of hopeful immigrants. Those nursed to health were allowed entry to America. Those deemed feeble of body or mind were deported. Three short decades after it opened, the Ellis Island hospital was all but abandoned. As America after World War I began shutting its border to all but a favored few, the hospital fell into disuse and decay, its medical wards left open only to the salt air of the New York Harbor. With many never-before-published photographs and compelling, sometimes heartbreaking stories of patients (a few of whom are still alive today) and medical staff, Forgotten Ellis Island is the first book about this extraordinary institution. It is a powerful tribute to the best and worst of America's dealings with its new citizens-to-be.
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Published: 1990-09-04
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ISBN-13: 9780451972729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rebecca Rowell
Publisher: Essential Library
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781532110184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCover -- Title Page -- Credits -- Contents -- One: Taking Charge -- Two: Immigration to America -- Three: The Journey to Ellis Island -- Four: Island of Hope, Island of Tears -- Five: Detained, Deported -- Six: The Workers of Ellis Island -- Seven: Interim and Return -- Eight: Ellis Island after Williams -- Photographing Ellis Island -- Glossary -- Additional Resources -- Source Notes -- Index -- About the Author
