Immigrants'testimonies T°8 by Jean-Christophe SIMON https://padlet.com/jcsimon031/e6h2vblvmlodt6bq en-us 2021-09-23 06:17:11 UTC 2021-09-26 10:57:44 UTC hello@padlet.com jfkljlf https://padlet.com/jcsimon031/e6h2vblvmlodt6bq/wish/1765158696 2021-09-24 08:18:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jcsimon031/e6h2vblvmlodt6bq/wish/1765158696 Emmanuel Manny Steen https://padlet.com/jcsimon031/e6h2vblvmlodt6bq/wish/1765217580 Emanuel Manny is an emmigrate who left his country after the World War I in hopes to find a better life in America. After the death of his father, his uncle took command of his family and he decided to find a better situation of life for his big family. Ireland, at the moment, was  a country of fears and murders. And he explain that this journey was an adventure for him. He arrived to Ellis Island and it’s where his adventure begin.

He left from the port of Liverpool in the steamship. He was in the third class, men and women were separate. He arrived on August 1st, everybody ran to see the land. He saw first the Woolworth building, the tallest building in the wolrd at this time. Everybody was yelling, crying and kissing. At the arrival, immigrants were tagged : name, origin… They were with many people from differents countries.

 For him, the physical exam was the worst memory he kept from Ellis Island. It was traumatizing because they gave them a short inspection in front everyone with women and men and they were almost totally naked. Then they had to show their financial security. His financial security was about twenty dollar that he loan into twenty bucks. He almost died of thirst but he finally went to Battery Park. His family and him are very grateful for this opportunity.

Ines FRIZON, Jade PERRET et Louna GUERARD 

]]> 2021-09-24 08:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jcsimon031/e6h2vblvmlodt6bq/wish/1765217580 " Streets paved with gold" https://padlet.com/jcsimon031/e6h2vblvmlodt6bq/wish/1765227698 The text is the June Gusoff's testimony. She grew up in Palestine, in Jerusalem and she never left this city before. After the WWI her father decided to leave Palestine to go to America because of economic reasons. The family could profited help from their uncle who lived in New-York and send them money. The sisters and the father were together in America and they waited for other family's members.
June's mother, brothers and her wanted to left Palestine behind her grand-mother who was near-death and who didn't want to die in other country that her native country. Unfortunately, at the last minute , the trachoma's mother became active. In deed June explained that they often had trachoma in Palestine.  So, June's mother can't go with them on the boat because of this very contagious disease and she stayed with June's little brother in Palestine. So, June went to America with her older brother. June described the bad conditions of living in the ship; people were urinated on the floor. June did'nt know how really was America and what was her expectations. When she arrived at Ellis Island, she didn't know how she could find her father, who waited her, in the crowd. Unfortunately, she had to be detained because her brother had a problem with his eyes. Finally, her father found her, and recognized her because of her broken tooth. June was excited to use the subway and be with her father.
Clara FERNANDEZ, Angel RUMIEL et Corentin THIERRY]]> 2021-09-24 09:02:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jcsimon031/e6h2vblvmlodt6bq/wish/1765227698 "Trying to escape the war" - Paulina Caramando https://padlet.com/jcsimon031/e6h2vblvmlodt6bq/wish/1765589888
Just after WWI, Paulina Carmando fled her country to escape poverty thas exist in Italia (she lived in Sicily). Her and her family decided to go to America ( his sister was already living there). 

First she goes from Sicily to Italia. Then Italia to Naples (the trip lasted 2 weeks in boat she explain the men and the woman are separated for the night. ). Then, from Naples to Ellis island in boat (the trip lasted 22 days and was terrible).

When they arrived to New York Harbor (the 4 of July). She explains that they had to undress to take a shower, people took our clothers to fumigate them. Then they ate their first meal. They also were examinated (to look for lice, and signs of deseases in their eyes). After passing through Ellis Island (for 2 days) they were sent to Boston. His family considers themselves lucky because many others have been sent back to their country and committed suicide.

In Boston, with her aunt, she went shopping. She became a citizen because at that time children under 12 were automatically citizens.

Juliette SEVILLANO, Mathilde ROLAND, Grégoire RALLIERES


]]> 2021-09-24 13:02:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jcsimon031/e6h2vblvmlodt6bq/wish/1765589888 Marge Glasgow "I remember" https://padlet.com/jcsimon031/e6h2vblvmlodt6bq/wish/1765711502 Over time she regrets leaving home. She cried often and she was always afraid to go there. She is very apprehensive. She have seen stories by her mother when she left they took off all her clothes they made her take a shower. She was very scared to go.

In the Great Hall, Marge was afraid of the doctors and everyone present in a room. Then she was afraid to be questioned and she started to cry. A doctor came to reassure her and he explained that she would have to stay 10 days to have the eye tested. Then a nurse asked Marge to follow her.

 She saw the boats go by and she wondered if she if she was going to be able to enter in the USA or if she was going to have to return in her country. She really wanted to live in the USA. Marge Glasgow found peoples are nice. She even got a job as a mother’s helper and after all that, she found every day was better than the last. To finish, she was finally allowed to leave Ellis Island ten days after her arrival. But she apprehended the rest. 
]]> 2021-09-24 13:48:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jcsimon031/e6h2vblvmlodt6bq/wish/1765711502 A boy's journey https://padlet.com/jcsimon031/e6h2vblvmlodt6bq/wish/1765967198  This story is about a men , his name is Seymour Rechtzeit , he talks about his story when he was 8 years old . When he was 4 years old , he was called wunderkind or wonder child in English because he was a young prodigy of music in Poland 
He left europe because it was bad time in europe for example world war, political instability and religious persecutions (he was Jewish) .
He took a ship to quite is country and go to the usa , the trip during two week and it is miserable.
When he arrived he had to pass a medical examination and he was sick but his father was not sick and he had to let his father go in new york without him .
He stayed few days on Ellis Island , he had no toy and i didn’t know of such things but he was with other boys to keep company . During is day in Ellis island he discovery the American lifestyle .
His cold went away and his father and his uncle were coming to get here.
And he welcoming them to Amercia.
]]> 2021-09-24 15:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jcsimon031/e6h2vblvmlodt6bq/wish/1765967198 “I REMEMBER” https://padlet.com/jcsimon031/e6h2vblvmlodt6bq/wish/1768188982 This document is written by Marge GLASGOW  for the book “Ellis island interviews: in their own words”
She came on Ellis island in 1922, on her own, at the age of fifteen.
She tell us her Imigrant story:
She came to Ellis island with regrets and sadness about leaving her home. At Ellis island she was totally alone. She felt afraid of everything about Ellis island but in particular, when a person came to her to took all her stuff (clothes) to put them in a bag and then put it away.
After the great hall she felt so stressed about all this person being questioned around her, she start to weeping so Mitch than a doctor came to her to try to comfort her. She remember that the doctor told her to not worry because they need to verified something about her health during 10 days. A nurse came to her, she recalled that the nurse was kind to her and take care of her. A young man gives her during the stay some flowers and candy boxes. Nurse liked her hair a lot and tell her that she can give Mary PICKFORD competition. At the time to leave she was feeling sad and start to regret to leave the first place in America where she felt safe and maybe like as her home. ]]> 2021-09-26 07:06:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jcsimon031/e6h2vblvmlodt6bq/wish/1768188982 you tired, you poor https://padlet.com/jcsimon031/e6h2vblvmlodt6bq/wish/1768406997 Brigitte Dutertre de la Montagne de Pousy who was a young French aristocrat who wanted to go to USA. In her testimony, Brigitte talk about her arrival on Ellis island. She wasn’t excited to join the Ellis Island because normally she should have been in First Class and simply disembarked in New York without to ask permission to enter the United States.
 Instead of this, she ended up having to do the immigration processing like steerage passengers, because her younger sister, Beatrice, whom she came to join, was supposed to pay her for a second-class ticket. Unfortunately, Beatrice, madly in love, had married a farmer, Charles Blackburn from North Carolina, and she was already pregnant with Charles Junior. While the last hopes of getting married in a fortune, rested on the youngest, this one ruined the fortune of the family Dutertre de la Montagne de Pousy, who was known for being in the first class, having a private cabin cocktails, dinner at the captain's table.
 She also criticized the fact that young French farmers come to take refuge in America instead of going to defend their country against Germany. Actually, going to join her sister, Brigitte had a bad experience because she felt bad, humiliated to be in the middle of lots of people who were uneducated and frankly prickly individuals. She tried all the same to relativize to say that it is not serious.

LE SAUX Lya, FAURE Inès, DE JESUS Lionel
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