Annie's Ghosts by Steve Luxenberg

Author:Steve Luxenberg [Luxenberg, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781401394424
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Eyes shut might have been the preferred mode of travel at sea, but those same eyes grew wide upon entering New York’s harbor. A photo of the S.S. Patricia, taken just six months before Chaim traveled on that same ship to America, shows the main deck jammed to overflowing with smiling immigrants eager to get a glimpse of their new homeland. They had plenty of time to gawk; so many ships were arriving in New York during this period that the Ellis Island inspectors were overwhelmed, requiring steerage passengers to remain on their ships or crowd onto ferries while awaiting their turn for processing. Ellis Island’s inspectors could handle between two thousand and four thousand steerage passengers on a typical day; the nine ships that appeared on July 21, 1907—the day of Chaim’s arrival—carried three or four times that many.

Chaim had made it to America. Now the question was: Would he be able to make it in America?

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