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Ellis Island   /ˈɛlɪs ˈaɪlənd/   Listen
Ellis Island

noun
1.
An island in New York Bay that was formerly the principal immigration station for the United States.





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"Ellis Island" Quotes from Famous Books



... promised land, but never knew that the continent their admiral discovered would some day be a place of refuge for their race? Now, every year, thousands of men and women and children, a great many of our own people among them, seek a refuge here. If you go to Ellis Island, you may see them entering this New World where they hope to find home and happiness. I have seen them with their baskets and their bundles of household goods, their little children in their arms, (do you remember how Reuben wandered through ...
— The New Land - Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country • Elma Ehrlich Levinger


Words linked to "Ellis Island" :   Garden State, NJ, New Jersey, jersey, island


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