Download or read book I was Dreaming to Come to America written by Veronica Lawlor and published by Viking Juvenile. This book was released on 1995 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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.

Download or read book I Was Dreaming to Come to America written by Veronica Lawlor and published by . This book was released on 1995-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ellis Island Interviews written by Peter M. Coan and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains transcripts of interviews with over one hundred of the last surviving immigrants who came through Ellis Island to America, and includes conversations with six employees of the island in which they discuss their duties and experiences.

Download or read book Ellis Island Interviews written by Peter M. Coan and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents first-hand accounts from the last surviving immigrants

Download or read book Journey to a New Land written by Kimberly Weinberger and published by Mondo Pub. This book was released on 2000 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elda Willitts recounts for the Ellis Island Oral History Project her childhood journey to America from Italy in 1916.

Download or read book Passages to America written by Emmy E. Werner and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More 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.

Download or read book Ellis Island written by Malgorzata Szejnert and published by Scribe Us. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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.

Download or read book Hope and Tears written by Gwenyth Swain and published by Calkins Creek Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information about the immigration station in New York harbor, along with fictionalized accounts of the people who came through or worked there.

Download or read book Ellis Island written by Hal Marcovitz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1892 and 1954, more than 12 million immigrants entered the United States through the Ellis Island processing station in New York harbor. To these immigrants, Ellis Island was a symbol of the American dream—once they passed through its gates, they could start a new life with opportunities that were not available to them in their countries of origin. Today, roughly one-third of our country's population is descended from those who were processed at Ellis Island, and the facility is now a museum dedicated to American immigration.

Download or read book The Story of Ellis Island written by Willard Allison Heaps and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A record of the years that Ellis Island served as the immigrants' introduction to America, describing what many Europeans felt and saw upon arrival and the procedures on the island before immigrants were allowed to enter New York.

Download or read book An Ellis Island Time Capsule written by Rachael Teresa Hanel and published by Capstone Press. This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In the Shadow of Lady Liberty written by Danny Kravitz and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores immigrants' experiences at Ellis Island through the use of primary sources"--

Download or read book William Williams Documents written by Rebecca Rowell and published by Essential Library. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- 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

Download or read book Island of Hope Island of Tears written by David M. Brownstone and published by Friedman-Fairfax. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1892 and the early 1950s nearly fifteen million people streamed through Ellis Island in search of a new life. Though it closed as a federal immigration station in 1954, the landmark island was restored and reopened in 1990 as a museum run by the National Park Service -- thus preserving the heritage of the more than 100 million Americans who can trace their immigrant roots there.

Download or read book Story of Ellis Island written by Willard A. Heaps and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Life on Ellis Island written by Renee C. Rebman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses life on Ellis Island, including detainment and deportation of immigrants, daily activities, the development of the immigration station, its role in the formation of the great melting pot of America, and the later years.

Download or read book Ellis Island written by Leslie Beth Allen and published by . This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how the immigration station on Ellis Island served as a gateway into the United States for millions of immigrants.