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Ellis Island: A People's History by Malgorzata Szejnert

challenging informative

3.0

The island now known as Ellis was once a smaller island known a Kioshk. There the Lenni Lenapi lived modest lives until the colonizers came and the land became a part of what would ultimately be the United States of America. This history traces its change into an icon of immigration. The tale is told as individual stories and vignettes of the immigrants, employees, protestors, and others whose lives were indelibly changed by the island and the ever-changing rules that governed it. Originally written in Polish and published in 2009, this new English translation offers outsider insight into this world-famous landmark and its failures, struggles and successes.