Passages To America: Oral Histories of Child Im. Werner, E.<|

Passages to AmericaOral Histories of Child Immigrants from Ellis Island and Angel Island\nAuthor(s): Emmy E. Werner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Potomac Books Inc, United States\nImprint: Potomac Books Inc\nISBN-13: 9781597972963, 978-1597972963\nSynopsis\nMore 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.\n\nAcross ethnic line.