Presents first-hand accounts from the last surviving immigrants.

Gittel and her mother were supposed to immigrate to America together, but when her mother is stopped by the health inspector, Gittel must make the journey alone

More than twelve million immigrants, many of them children, passed through Ellis Island's gates between 1892 and 1954. Children also came through the "Guardian

Contains transcripts of interviews with over one hundred of the last surviving immigrants who came through Ellis Island to America, and includes conversations w

New York, November 3, 1954: The last immigration officer of Ellis Island looks back at 45 years as gatekeeper to America.