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‘That was the greatest day of all our lives’: The migrants who passed through Ellis Island
6 mn readIsabel Belarsky was one of the millions of people who were processed on Ellis Island before its immigration facility closed in 1954. In 2014, she told the BBC about reaching the gateway to the US from the Soviet Union in 1930. On 12 November 1954, a Norwegian seaman Arne Petterson was questioned by immigration officials […]
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