Here they bought tickets for a thousand places in america. Here they traded their drachmas, their liras, and their rubles, for dollars. Here they sang their First American songs, experienced their First American christmas, and hanukkah. Here they waited to be given permission to pass over to the new land. Tens of millions of us have relatives who came this way, sat in this room, part of the largest human migration in history. Of the many who came, some were turned away. But even they would leave part of themselves in america, to remind us why they had come so far, why they had made the journey. Woman you never know how hard it was to leave her. That was the hardest thing i think i ever had to do. Man she said if you leave, why, i dont ever want you to come back again. Woman long hard life it was. Narrator europe had always lost its children to america, and now there were new reasons to leave. Industrial change and political unrest brought increased joblessness and poverty to italy and
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