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Forgotten Ellis Island

Grade Levels:	6 - 13+
Core Subject(s):	Social Studies
Length:	00:56:48
Website:	http://www.uen.org/emedia
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This is the first film about the once abandoned immigrant hospital on Ellis Island. In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island, 3,500 were buried in pauper's graves around New York City.

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