Weiss, Andrew — Ellis Island: Ellis Island: Those Who Arrived There, Why, and What Was it Like?
Our story this week is about Ellis Island and the people who arrived there when they first came to America. Between 1892 and 1956 about 12 million immigrants came to the United States and entered the country through Ellis Island, in the harbor of New York City. Who were these people? Where were they from? What was their experience of getting to Ellis Island and what was it like for them once they arrived there?
In this archive edition of Radio Curious, we visit with Andrew Weiss, who I met in 1992 when he was the guide of a tour I took at Ellis Island. At that time he also was a doctoral student at Columbia University and a teacher at Barnard College in New York City. When Andrew Weiss and I visited in November of 1992 by phone from his home in New York City we began our conversation with a bit of the history of Ellis Island.
When this program was recorded in November 1992, the guests were not asked for a recommendation of a book.
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