immigration and emigration

During a school trip to Ellis Island, Dominick Avaro, a ten-year-old foster child, travels back in time to 1908 Italy and accompanies two young emigrants to America.

As a father tells his daughter what a seed needs to flourish, he also explains the reasons he emigrated to a new homeland.

When twelve-year-old Sarah leaves the Ukraine for America in her sister's place, she must use her sister's passport and her sister's name, Hannah.

Having left Poland and braved ocean storms to join her father in America, Krysia arrives at Ellis Island on Christmas Eve.

Rebekah, a fifteen-year-old Jewish immigrant arriving in New York City in 1902, almost abandons her dream of getting an education when she is forced to work in a sweatshop.

Carl Erik journeys with his family from Sweden to America during the famine of 1868.

Relates how Grandmother, accompanied by a mischievous shadow, emigrated from Russia to the United States.

A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.

A grandmother tells the story of her eventful life in early twentieth-century Europe and her arrival in the United States after World War II.

Discusses immigration, past and present, focusing on how four children from different countries came to live in the United States.