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  • French artist JR's work are installed throughout the complex.
    French artist JR's work are installed throughout the complex.
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    Inside Ellis Island’s Immigrant Hospital

    An effort is underway to save old buildings crumbling into dust

    byMarjorie Ingall
  • Steerage on the Red Star Line, 1925.(Courtesy of Red Star Line Museum)
    Steerage on the Red Star Line, 1925.(Courtesy of Red Star Line Museum)
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    Museum in Antwerp Recalls the Ships That Brought Einstein and Irving Berlin to America

    The Red Star Line carried half a million Jewish refugees from Europe as they fled pogroms, anti-Semitism, and the Nazis

    byGrace Bello
  • (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo iStockphoto.com)
    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo iStockphoto.com)
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    Back to My Roots

    After my grandparents came to America, they changed our name. Decades later, I changed it back—and rediscovered a lost history.

    byPaul Sochaczewski
  • The imams praying on the balcony of Ellis Island's Great Hall.(Allison Hoffman)
    The imams praying on the balcony of Ellis Island's Great Hall.(Allison Hoffman)
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    Shalom, and Salaam

    European rabbis and imams pay a visit to Ellis Island

    byAllison Hoffman
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