"The day I left home, my mother came with me to the railroad station.When we said goodbye, she said it was just like seeing me go into my casket, I never saw her again." So is the story of Julia B. from Germany and many others who left their life and love for a chance of happiness in a new country. This is the story of the German immigrants in 1880-1930 who risked everything …
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…how they adapted you now know what caused the German immigration to America between 1870-1930. In 1954 after 70 years of service they closed Ellis Island and also the doors where millions of immigrants had passed through. I hope this paper helps many people of German decent know more about about their heritage as it did me. Of course, this paper only scratched the surface of what really happined to those immigrants long, long ago..... Bibliography none