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Letters From Rifka - Karen Hesse
Letters from Rifka is a historical novel about a young girl and her family’s immigration to the United States from Russia. This book will help you start to understand why people left their homes to come to America and what it meant to be free.
Explore these websites to understand immigration:
About.com's Immigration Issues Guide http://immigration.about.com/newsissues/immigration/msubimhis.htm
This site provides helpful, annotated links to a variety of information on the Web about the history of immigration, including laws, facts, important events, and remembrance. In addition to links about specific cultural groups, researchers can also use this site to help navigate the Web for genealogical information.
American Memory Project http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html
This is the Library of Congress' American Memory Historical Collections, a major component of the Library's National Digital Library Program. Search under "immigrant" or "immigration" to find multimedia exhibits of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections.
Ellis Island Immigration Museum http://www.ellisisland.org/
"The Museum tells the inspiring story of the largest human migration in modern history. Between 1892 and 1954, 12 million immigrants were processed at Ellis Island. Today more than 40 percent, or over 100 Million, of all living Americans can trace their roots to an ancestor who came through Ellis Island."
History Channel's Ellis Island http://www.historychannel.com/ellisisland/index2.html
This virtual guided tour of Ellis Island offers a wonderful Internet exploration of the main port for immigrants from Europe. The life stories and images of immigration at Ellis Island are brought to life by the audio voices, photographs, and video clips presented on this web site. From here, you can also build a family tree or compare the experiences and requirements of various visitors to Ellis Island.
Read an interview with Karen Hesse: http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-hesse-karen.asp |
