The Persecution Of Ellis Island

According to History.coms article called “Ellis Island.” Ellis island opened in 1892, then going on as a federal immigration station for 62 years ending in 1954. It is now estimated that at least 40 percent of american citizen can trace one or more ancestors to Ellis island. When Ellis island first opened, many immigrants were arriving from southern and eastern Europe, Jews escaping czarist Russia, and eastern Europe. Along with Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, Serbs, Slovaks, Greeks, Italians who were leaving behind a country struggling with poverty, Syria, Turkey. A few reasons for many people leaving their countries were drought, famine, the Armenian war, and religious persecution/left.