num_pages: 40
description: Readers witness the life of a Jewish family who move from Russia to New York City to escape persecution and starvation and to make a new life. Fact-filled narrative and historical photos plus fictional letters and journal entries from 12-year-old Emma Markowitz and her family paint a memorable picture of the typical European immigrant experience in the 1890s.
language: English
title: We Came Through Ellis Island: The Immigrant Adventures of Emma Markowitz
titlecomplete: We Came Through Ellis Island: The Immigrant Adventures of Emma Markowitz
ratings_count: 8
publisher: National Geographic Children's Books