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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: Veronica Lawlor
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Published: 1995-01
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ISBN-13: 9780605007086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: 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: 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.
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781435158764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island processed 12 million immigrants. Produced in cooperation with the Ellis Island Research Foundation, "Ellis Island Interviews" collects the oral histories of more than 130 men and women from all socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. The stories of these last original surviving immigrants are enhanced by more than 60 photographs, many never before published.
Author: Peter M. Coan
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780816034147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents first-hand accounts from the last surviving immigrants
Author: Gwenyth Swain
Publisher: Calkins Creek Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 159078765X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides information about the immigration station in New York harbor, along with fictionalized accounts of the people who came through or worked there.
Author: Ivan Chermayeff
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 294
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the immigrant's experiences and their pilgrimage of hope.
Author: Anna Pegler-Gordon
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2021-10-28
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1469665735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe immigration station at New York's Ellis Island opened in 1892 and remained the largest U.S. port for immigrant entry until World War I. In popular memory, Ellis Island is typically seen as a gateway for Europeans seeking to join the "great American melting pot." But as this fresh examination of Ellis Island's history reveals, it was also a major site of immigrant detention and exclusion, especially for Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian travelers and maritime laborers who reached New York City from Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean, and even within the United States. And from 1924 to 1954, the station functioned as a detention camp and deportation center for a range of people deemed undesirable. Anna Pegler-Gordon draws on immigrants' oral histories and memoirs, government archives, newspapers, and other sources to reorient the history of migration and exclusion in the United States. In chronicling the circumstances of those who passed through or were detained at Ellis Island, she shows that Asian exclusion was both larger in scope and more limited in force than has been previously recognized.
