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As the main entry facility for immigrants coming to the United States for more than half a century, Ellis Island was the last stop before a move to freedom in America. About 12 million people from Europe and elsewhere entered teh United States through this portal. The fascinating Ellis Island uses immigrants' own words, photographs, and full-color illustrations to explore the significance to those who wished to pursue the American Dream.

Intro -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- One - FROM CASTLE GARDEN TO ELLIS ISLAND -- Two - YEARS OF GLORY, YEARS OF CONTROVERSY -- Three - AN ALBUM OF NATIONS -- Four - LIFE ON ELLIS ISLAND AND IN AMERICA -- Five - THE FINAL YEARS -- Six - A GLIMPSE AT THE HALL OF FAME -- Seven - NEGLECT AND PRESERVATION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX.

"Georges Perec, employing prose meditations, lists, and inventories (of countries of origin, of what the immigrants carried), conjures up in Ellis Island the sixteen million people who, between 1890 and 1954, arrived as foreigners and stayed on to become Americans. Perec (who by the age of nine was an orphan: his father was killed by a German bullet; his mother perished in Auschwitz) is wide-awake to the elements of chance in immigration and survival: "To me Ellis Island is the ultimate place of exile. That is, the place where place is absent, the non-place, the nowhere... Ellis Island belongs to all those whom intolerance and poverty have driven and still drive from the land where they grew up." Ellis Island is a slender Perec masterwork, unique among his many singular works. The acclaimed poet and scholar Mónica de la Torre contributes an afterword that keeps Perec's writing front and center while situating Ellis Island in the context of current fierce battles over immigration"--

Cover Page -- Half-Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Einführung -- 1. Von Castle Garden bis Ellis Island -- 2. Jahre des Ruhmes, Jahre der Kontroverse -- 3. Ein Album von Nationen -- 4. Das Leben auf Ellis Island und in Amerika -- 5. Die letzten Jahre -- 6. Ein Blick auf die Ruhmshalle -- 7. Vernachlässigung und Preservierung -- Anerkennungen -- Personen- und Sachregister.

At 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 7, 1994, the first trial under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) began. Dusko Tadić was charged, on the basis of individual criminal responsibility, with grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, violations of the laws or customs of war, and crimes against humanity. Tadić escaped only the charge of genocide.