We Came Through Ellis Island: The Immigrant Adventures of Emma Markowitz
Gare Thompson
40 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0792256824
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Language: English
Publish: July 1, 2003
Readers witness the life of a Jewish family who move from Russia to New York City to escape persecution and starvation and to make a new life. Fact-filled narrative and historical photos plus fictional letters and journal entries from 12-year-old Emma Markowitz and her family paint a memorable picture of the typical European immigrant experience in the 1890s.