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Hello, I'm Anja and I was eight when I left Poland in 1940. Now I'm eighty-nine, but I remember very well the journey and the arrival and now, I'm going to tell you my story.
My father, my brother and I left Warsaw after my mother was killed in an extermination center, only because she was Jewish. It was very difficult to go to the harbour of St-Petersbourg, because we had to hide and find some helpto pass throught the Nazi checkpoins and we were betrayed many times. After two month of walk we finally arrived in the harbour of St-Petersbourg; It was very hard to get a boat ticket, because it was very expensive and there were many nazis and it was written "Jewish" on our passports. After four days, we finally bought a smuggler tree tickets for New York. We boarded immediately and began our travel across the atlantic ocean. The journey lasted twenty days, but it was very hard, and my elder brother became sick. We couldn't sleep and we were uncomfortable, with other immigrants. We finally arrived in Ellis Island and some officials checked our papers. Then wehad to pass many medical exams ans my brother was almost sent back to St-Petersbourg, but he wasn't considerate sick enough. After tha, we had to answer many questions, during two hours every days. It was very boring and we stayed there ten days. Then we were sent to New York and my father cried with joy.

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Hello my name is Jean Michel Poppy. I was 17 years old when I left Ireland. Now, I'm 46 years and I'm going to tell you my story.
I left Ireland because my family was very poor  and in my village  there were a religious persecutions  against the orthodoxe. I decided to go with my sister Geraldine who was 19 years old in New-York. We took the train to go to the streamship. I felt worried and felt depressed to leave my family but I was very pleased to begin a new life. The journey was long and I was seasick sometimes. When I arrived in New York, the first thing that I saw was the statue of Liberty. I was wild with joy. We went straight to Ellis Island. It was very big. To start, we went to the medical inspection during which the officials checked our papers. Everything was perfect for us. For some people who were sick, the officials write letters and they were sent back to their country. We left the island after 3 days. I was so happy that I cry with joy. Then, I looked for any job. I felt so little compared to the building of New York. I wanted to buildt a family and live my life like i wanted.

Lila Leroy-Therville 3°2 (4.5/5

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I'm Jean Michel I was seven when I left Ireland in 1882. Now I'm eighteen. I'm going to tell you my story.
I left my country because I wanted to meet my family that lived in Rio en Brasil. I was seasick during the journey because I had travelled by boat. I traveled with a lot of people. Another person was homesick as me. After the journey I get off on Ellis Isalnd and stayed for a short times, two hours or three hours.
I don't remember .
I was very scared that my family had forgotten me. It's my fear. But I'm very exited to find to my family too.
When I arrived my family was very happy find me.
It was the best day of my life .

Zélie Dupalut 3°2    (+3.5/5)

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My name is Yellow frezd , I was born in France in 1872 .When I decided to leave my country it was for my familly .My familly decided to change my name for yellow , my old name was Margarette . My father wanted me to have a better life because we were poor . When I was in the steamship I didn't feel well at all , I cried for my  familly and my country but my mother said "don't cry for us , don't cry for you ,just be happy for your new life ".We stayed at sea for two weaks , two days and five hours . I thought that we were in America but we had been stopped on Ellis island , it was a tcheckpoint for immigration I stayed here two months . I became friends with two guardians , they were so cool with me but other immigrants weren't so friendly and they didn't speak any English . On the third of December 1888. I left Ellis island , after this i went to New-York . In new york I felt so happy but my familly didn't left my heart . three month later my new job was guardian in Ellis island . I became a caretaker in Ellis Island.

Vincent Vilagines 3°2  (4/5)

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Hi people,
my name is Lizabeth O'Connor and I was 80 years old, today I will tell you my story in Ellis Island.
I left Germany because my family was poor.
My parents decided to go in America.
My parents and me took a boat, while in travel I was very sad because my friends and my life was in Germany while 3 days I became depressed.
My family and me was arrived in Ellis Island after one week by boat.
In the first day in Ellis Island, a doctor examined my family and me and after examined an agent to check our papers.
Some days after my arrivals in Ellis Island, I made a friends, I also made a new meetings met new people in Ellis Island. My new friend was called Eliza she was my best friend and she made me love Ellis Island.
3 weeks after my arrivals, I learned sadly that my parents wanted to go back in Germany.
I'm very sad during the return to Germany because Eliza was my best friend and I could not lives without her.
All the same my return in Germany Eliza and Me all the same contact kept in touch.
It's my story, Lizabeth O'Connor.

Ambre LEMA 3°2

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I ´m Patrick Léon.I was 3 when I left Japan because there was very difficult dictatorship and my famili was very poor.It was in 1943 during world war two.We took a steamship and I had to hide because when I was with my famili we had to by foot but when we see a soldear he killed my parents. When I was in the ship . I was upset maladicit. When I was in New-York I was very happy . I visited the wall street and I see a man with one gun and I run, run and I go in the first hotel that I see. Today I find America good and I have a job and a house.

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...English and my sister was a teacher at the best university in California . When I was 18 , I could enter in this university . I did it. I found a job when I was 27 . For 20 years I was director and 20 years I played Aerican Football .
Now I have two son and they lives where I live when I was young , in Toulouse . In one week , I go where I lived and where my son lives

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My name is John Stewart. I'm seventy-nine years. I'm from South Africa. I was born in Cape Town. I was nine when I left Cape Town in 1917. I remember my stay at Ellis Island very well. I'm going to tell you my story. I had left from my country because there was war. I came in steamship with a lot of people. Many people were sick during the journey exept me, I was not sick. When I arrived, I was taken to Ellis Island. I spent 10 hours waiting among the crowd to have permission to enter the United States. In short, my stay was not nice and especially long. After Ellis Island, I arrived in New-York. It was very beautiful, this city was really magic. At first, I tried to find a flat. Finally, I settled in this flat and never left New-York. I will tell you my adventure next time !
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In 1959 I and my family left China when I was twelve years old to escape poverty. My parents  had then decided to leave to live in the United States. The day of the departure we left Shanghai by boat, the trip was hard and lasted 19 days. After trip, we were forced to pass by an island named Ellis Island. Once we got off the boat , we have summers controled  for five hours then re-run to San Fransisco by boat. We arrived at the end of nine hours and we were finally in the United States. Shock was violent but relieving, finished poverty it was a new life for us. Three months later, my father found job, as well as my mother when has me, I had as ambition of working in finance, I worked hard for it and seven years later, me was registers in the school of Harvard.My name is PETER MCCARTY, I am seventy-one years old, I am famous  and proud of my history!      Guillaume Darroy 3e2

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In 1959 I and my family left China when I was twelve years old to escape poverty. My parents  had then decided to leave to live in the United States. The day of the departure we left Shanghai by boat, the trip was hard and lasted 19 days. After trip, we were forced to pass by an island named Ellis Island. Once we got off the boat , we have summers controled  for five hours then re-run to San Fransisco by boat. We arrived at the end of nine hours and we were finally in the United States. Shock was violent but relieving, finished poverty it was a new life for us. Three months later, my father found job, as well as my mother when has me, I had as ambition of working in finance, I worked hard for it and seven years later, me was registers in the school of Harvard.My name is PETER MCCARTY, I am seventy-one years old, I am famous  and proud of my history!      Guillaume Darroy 3e2

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Guillaume Darroy 3e2 (  3/5 Please, read the corrections in your test. I can't highlight on this post.)

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Hello I am Rustee McQueen. I was eighteen years old when I left Wales. Now I am twenty-eigth years old. I'm going to tell you my immigration story. In my city I was a garage mechanic. At the time the work was very bad, not a lot of people gt a car in Wales. One day I said "stop" and I decided to leave my contry to go to the United States of America. I bought a boat ticket to Chicago, I was very happy to leave Wales for the first time in my life, and also so sad because I left my friends and my family. When I was on board I saw a lot of people they were really cold. After three weeks on the boat and thre or four diseases I arrived on Angel Island. When I entered into the center one man took me and checked my papers and my health during two days. I could finaly go to Chicago. I was very happy but I didn't have a lot of money. Five weeks later I arrived in a camp of desert drivers. They were friendly with me and they showed me some cars. My passion for car served me to drive some of them. Two years after my meeting with this drivers I became the best driver in the USA and I won a lot of prises. I was very riche and I have a very good life right now. I am very famous in the competition. My fan love my and they gived me a nickname:
"The Star of the desert"

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My name is Jones . I'm 79 years old . Today I live In Las Vegas but I come from France.
When I was 10 years old in 1949 I took a steamship to Ellis Island with my parents and my sister .
When I saw the Statue of Liberty I was so hungry , I had not eaten for two days but this tower was so nice .
I don't remember what we did in Ellis Island because I sleep all of time but when we were allowed to enter the USA I was so happy . after , we  bought
a house in Las Vegas and I learnt English at my new school . I had lots of friends at this time and my father found a job because he already spoke English. (4/5)

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I'm Simon Helsinvert. I was seven years old when I left Italy. Now I’m going to tell you my story. I was always travelling with my parents and my brother because there was wars everywhere in Europe. Moreover we were’nt so rich even if we could eat as we wish. We took a steamship to go to the United States. I was a little bit scared because we didn’t know how the country was and where we were going. The only things I knew was that poeple called The United States  the ‘’ land of opportunity ’’ so it was reassuring. On the boat, there were many people. I was seasick but I didn’t miss Italy. We stopped on Ellis Island after sixteen days at sea. The officials on the Island weren’t nice at all and they treated us like animals. That was very difficult especially for my little brother. After they checked our papers, we had to wait for a few days. It was boring because we had nothing to do and nobody to play with. Then we went to the medical exams. They asked us a lot of questions about were we came from and why we want to go to the US. It was very stressful. After about eight days in Ellis Island, we were allowed to go in the US. We entered in this country all together and we were just happy to be there and alive.

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At the beggining, we were impressed. The city was huge and there were  a lot of skyscrapers. In the US, there were a lot of jobs so my parents quickly find one. My father became a policeman so we had a lot of money. We bought a big house. My brother and I did long studies. I became a writer and my brother worked in a bank. After that, I got married and I had a daughter. I really thik this country is the most beautiful in the world. My life was a beautiful one. Now I’m very old but I’m happy and my family too, it’s the only thing I need.

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So, my name is Patrick, I was twelve years old when I left the Republic of Ireland. Now, I'm seventy-seven years old and I'm going to tell my story. So, I left my country because  I was poor and a big famine had hit Ireland when I left my native town. The trip was very difficult because the boat which is a steamship was huge. But we were many and we were worried. The sanity wasn't good but manys people were very kind with me and with each other. When I finally arrived to Ellis Island because my destination was New-York City. First I had to pass a control and the official checked my paper. Until then I was in order. (Everything was fine for me.) But after many controls the doctors found a contagious disease. They stopped me because I was contagious. I had to stay to Ellis Island many weeks. Finally they let me go outside of Ellis Island dispite of my disease. I was so happy and released when they let me go outside. After that, I found a job, I was a trader. And some months after I found a house. And some years after my arrival, I founded a family and a normal life. (4.5/5)

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I'm an immigrant in Ellis Island. I left Africa when I was 5 years old in 1941. Now I am 76 years old and I will tell you my diary and my stay at Ellis Island. I was very young at the time so I just remember that my mother and father wanted to have a better job to live better. At the time we were very poor.
I was very young so I did not feel much but maybe a little fear.
The weather was quite good and I did not have seasickness so for me it was not unpleasant.
At Ellis Island  it was very big for me, the landscape was quite beautiful  and the city too. It was very different. I remember when I arrived I was so surprised and did not believe my eyes. And our accommodation had nothing to do with our previous small house in Africa. In Ellis Island I think I've stayed many years, I think probably 30 or 35 years. Ellis Island is a place I will remember for all my life.

(People didn't stay in Ellis Island, it was just the immigration center to check papers.)

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My name is Park Jimin. I was twenty-three years old when I left South Korea in 1942. Now I am seventy-six years old and I think that I am old enough and ready to tell you my story about my stay in Angel Island. I remember it very well. It was during World War II. I  was a young lady, just married with a handsome man called Kim Taehyung. We lived in Seoul, a huge city, in a little traditional house . We were really happy and lived very well before the venue of Japanease. They were rude and...only wanted to fight and persecutate Korean people. My husband had often conflicts with them. One day, they kidnapped him because of a money problem, and made drink alcohol until he became drunk. This event made him lose his job, his honor and his dignity. He was ashamed and we became poor rapidly. So he decided to talk to me about his idea to immigrate to the USA. I wasn't against this idea at all but...I was worried and felt depressed to leave my native country even if i knew that we would have a better life and situation there. We prepared all our things and two weeks later, we took a train to Busan and arrived in front of the steamship with our suitcases in our hands. When my husband and I boarded the steamship, I literaly cried with sadness. It felt so strange to leave our own country. Taehyung didn't stop to comfort me and hugged me even if it was also complicated for him. I felt selfish because I wasn't able to do anything for him. This terrible journey lasted twenty days on this horrible steamship. During all the trip, we didn't take a shower or slept in a proper bed. I was sick all along the trip with my husband next to me who was doing his best to make me feel better. When I saw the American land, I felt relieved that we arrived at Angel Island without more problems. It was the evening. We got off the steamship and they told us to follow an officer. It was the first checkpoint. He checked our papers during two hours! because there were a misunderstanding with our family names. After that, we slept in a small room that they gave us with only one bed for one person. I was so cold. I remember this night as the worst night of all my life. The second day, the doctors came and we all had to pass medical exams. Some people were sent back to their homecountry because of illness. I was hoping that we had nothing in particular. Our turn came at 7 p.m. The doctors welcomed us well and they were so kind and caring even if we only spoke a little bit of English. They took good care of us and one hour later, we left this second check point with good news. The two of us were perfectly healthy. We returned in our room and slept in the room of my nightmares. The third day, I was so tired because I had not slept enough. The officers woke us up with an alarm. It was the time of the interviews. We were questionned one by one and the families were separated. When my turn came, I immediatly understood thet the interview was going to be very scary. The officers were rude and did not even care to call me by my name. They were six for one person and they were calling me "the korean girl" in a mocking way. I tried to stay calm and answered to these many questions about all the details of my life without being terrified. One hour later, they let me out. When I left the office, Taehyung came to me running. He took me in his embrace and seemed very happy. I did not understand at first but he made me smile too by telling me that we were allowed to leave Angel Island. I cried with joy, hugged him tight and he kissed me. We took our suitcases and left. It was the beginning of a new life. 5++/5

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I'm Louis-Patrick. I was 15 years old when I left Russia. Today I'm doctor in Dallas. I'm going to tell you my story. I left my country because she it was at war so I decided to leave Moscow. I boarded a steamship, I feld sad. The journey was hard but I did everything to stay allive. I was sick, I was seasick. The journey took one week, one week in hell and we arrived in Ellis Island. In Ellis Island I xas finally relived but we stayed in Ellis Island for four days. The stay in Ellis Island was better than the trip on the boat. And when I left Ellis Island, I went to Dallas and I was very happy. In Dallas I wanted to start a new life. I did everything to have a better life. I studied to became a doctor, it was my dream and like Martin Luther-King " I have a dream", so I studied a long time and after many years I became a doctor in a big hospital. And I found my wife and I had three children. So today I have no regrets and I have a beautiful life.
Vincent Prêtre

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Hello, my name is Namika RUSHIATOV and I am 75 years old; I am going to tell you my story. I come from Russia and when I lived there, there were religious persecutions because I am Jewish and I was very poor. In 1950, I was 15 years old and I decided to leave my home country to have a better life. I had to walk for days, I was a girl alone so I was very scared. During these days I met people but most of them died because they had nothing to eat. It was hard but I finally arrived in St Petersbourg where I took a steamship. After 2 weeks we arrived at Ellis Island. People under 16, who weren't with an adult had to go back to their country; I was an alone 15-year-old girl so I decided to pretend that I was 17 years old. The officers questioned me for days. I was afraid, I couldn't make any mistakes. There I met a little boy from Russia, his name was Piotr, he was only 12 years old, both of his parents were dead, so no one was with him. We became very good friends but after 5 days in Ellis Island the officers sent him back to Russia. The police believed in my lies and after four weeks I finally had the right to go in the United States. Mystay on Ellis Island was very complicated, I was home sick and I missed my three brothers. Even if I felt sad I was glad to be in New York. There, I lived in a little flat. The first two months were difficult but after I met people and I had friends, then I became a waitress and I met my boyfriend. After 2 years together, we married and we had a little girl, Camilla. I am very glad to be here because I have a good life, I am the happiest mother in the U.S and my daughter will live in a good living conditions. In 1950, I took the Americain nationality and today my life is better than I ever thought.

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Hello, my name is Emeline, I was 25 years old when I'm immigrated, I'm birth in Rome and I'm Italian. Now I've 64 years old

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My name is George Philippe. I was born on the twenty-second of February nineteen forty-two in London. I was five when I left London. Today, I 'm sixty years old.e
I came to America because my family had money problems. There was not job. I was sad because I had friends at Shcool. I took the steanship from Liverpool to Ellis Island. I was sad and the journey was long. When arrived  on Ellis Island officers checked our papers. They asked me about me and my parents.

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Hello I'm Jean Louis Hubert De Ribet . I was 13 years old when I left France . Me and my family were poor and my mother was very sick . When we heard that we could go to the new world I started a diary to remember the beginning of our new life
13th December 1932:
My father works harder and he really wants to go to the new world but my mother said to him "I can understand that you want us to have a better life but it's just a dream. We are too poor to take a ticket for a steamship"
So he said to her :
"Maybe you think we can't but we need to try".
15th December
We are going to Bordeaux by foot we have to walk at least 7 days .
18th December
I'm very hungry, yesterday we didn't eat anything because we haven't a lot of food
20th December
My mother has headache more often and sometimes feels like she can't breathe so my father started to carry her on his back.
22nd December
We managed to arrived to Bordeaux and we had enough money to take a ticket for the steamship but not for food ...
23rd December
My mother said that she couldn't go she was very sick and she wanted us to have something to eat on the steamship. It's very hard to let someone of your family alone like this with no money and no food (I feel bad because I know she will die)
25th December
It's Christmas and everybody is happy and share toys and food with each others, it's not very hard to sleep on the floor, we talk to people who come from Russsia, Germany, Spain and other countries
31st December
We've been on the boat for eights days today people aren't as happy as the beginning of the trip. Yesterday 10 peoples  died of hunger.
11th January
People said that we would be in N ew-Y ork in one day
12th January
We arrived at Ellis Island I was scared because it looks like a very old Hospital or a prison. In the evening it was our turn to pass the interview. they asked things like "where do you come from ? " "why are you here ? "
13rd January
It's my birthday and we are now at New York it's Beautiful but we have to work hard
23rd February I couldn't write because i had a lot of work but now it's okey we have a little house and we are never hungry we have a better life but I missed my mother I hope she was a little bit happy for our new life when she died
13rd December 1942
I found my old diary in a box. I read it and I feel like I had to tell the entire world that nothing is impossible so i decided to write a book so that everybody in every country can read it.

(What a story! Well done Benoît! 5+/5)

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I went to the United States in 1954. I leaved of my native country because we were very hungry and we dreamed of having better lives, that's why we left with my mother and my brother. My father hat my mother, I don't no why, and that's why he stayed in Rome we went on a boat with another migrants. the trip was very difficult because nobody had taken food. The trip lasted three weeks. When I arrived I was homesick but I was a new person, and I was very happy.

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II missed Italy, but I was happy with my choice because I became who I wanted to be. I had a great job, a great husband and great kids.

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My name is Alissa Tehgodess and I was eleven when I immigrated. I was born in Poland, and, as you know, after WWII Soviets(Ruskies) occupied Poland.
There was a thing called 'Iron Curtain'. It meant you could not go abroad. You could theoretically go abroad as an artist and then ask for political asylum, but still, it was really dangerous. I remember how my parents told me the plan to ask for the political asylum in Ireland, and then, hopefully, move to America. They were very famous artists, so, by chance, Ireland gave them the permission to stay.
We boarded a steamship to America , and the journey was awful - immediately I felt seasick. Moreover there was not a lot of food.
I remember when we saw the Statue of Liberty. I, as a child, was shocked by that wonderful world that opened to me. I thought that it was utopia.
However, the reality was not as good as I imagined.
We had problems with documents, and my parents thought it was over, but the man who checked our papers recognized my mom, and  let us in.
Over all, we stayed there one day.
When we arrived, we did not know what to do. Nobody knew us in America, so my parents sang in Polish-speaking community, and they did not get a lot of money.
I tried to help, and I started working as soon as I could.
And here I am, already with children, happy and calm.                    Nahum Schechtman

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Hi my name is Peter and I come from Spain I am living in Ellis Island and I want to tell you how I arrived and how I live.
I arrived at ellis island a year ago in a small boat and with many more people. I could not move much and the only thing we saw was the blue sea. After many hours on the boat we got to see the island that we both wanted to get to Ellis Island
When we arrived the first thing they gave us was an identification letter to each one so they could register us. When I arrived, I thought that my dream of opening a store could come true. Within a few minutes they were calling one by one to do the medical exam and more. Later the legal inspection. When everything was over I went to change the money I had brought from my country for US dollars. I already had everything just had to leave but it was too late and I had to stay for a night on the island which was not Nothing comfortable but I had already fulfilled my dream as I was already in America.When it was day and I was going to achieve my dream I achieved it.