In the Shadow of Lady Liberty by Danny Kravitz

Author:Danny Kravitz [Kravitz, Danny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: nonfiction; Connect; U.S. Immigration in the 1900s; Juvenile Nonfiction; Social Issues/Emigration & Immigration; Juvenile Nonfiction; History/United States/20Th Century; Juvenile Nonfiction; History/Modern; 9781491441275; 9781491441732; 9781491441794; 9781491478905
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2015-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

Many immigrants, such as these people in 1900, ate their first meal in the New World at Ellis Island’s dining hall. The hall could fit up to 1,000 people.

Making It Out

Once immigrants passed all of the legal and medical inspections, they walked down a staircase at one end of the Great Hall. A post office and a railway ticketing office waited at the bottom of the stairs. Immigrants could also exchange their foreign money for American dollars. Social workers and other Ellis Island officers were there to help with any problems or questions.

Just outside the back doors of the main building was a place nicknamed the “kissing post.” Families who had been separated during inspections frantically looked for each other there. People who already lived in New York also waited for their loved ones to come out. When they found each other, people kissed, hugged, and cried with joy.

Estelle Belford from Romania was 5 when she and her mother exited the main building at Ellis Island, *“I remember my father puttin’ his arms around my mother and the two of them… crying,” she said. “And my father said to my mother, ‘You’re in America now and you have nothing to be afraid of.’”

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