(Belgium-US) Ellis Island and Red Star Line Museum Exhibit

[Jan Meisels Allen janmallen@att.net]

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If you are going to be in the New York City area now through September 4th
you may wish to visit a new exhibit called, Via Antwerp: The Road to Ellis
Island. Many immigrants to the United States started in Eastern Europe and
made their way to Antwerp, Belgium to travel on the Red Star Line. There
they had to undergo medical and administrative inspections. The Via Antwerp
exhibit is a temporary exhibition space next to the Great Hall of Ellis
Island where the immigrants waited to be interviewed. The processing of
immigrants at Ellis Island mirrored the buildings at Rijnkaai, Antwerp where
the Red Star Line Museum is located. The exhibit begins in the heart of
continental Europe, from where it journeys to Antwerp by train, where it
briefly dwells on the medical and administrative inspections in the historic
buildings of the Red Star Line shipping company after which it crosses the
Atlantic and ends in Ellis Island.

Among the immigrants that traveled on the Red Star Line from Antwerp to New
York was Israel Baline, known to us as Irving Berlin. The exhibit has
information on his life, his music and more.

For more on Ellis Island see:
http://www.redstarline.be/en/exhibition/exhibition-antwerp-road-ellis-island

The exhibition is part of the official program of the Centennial Year 2016,
which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the U.S. National Park Service,
which provides support to and protects the Statue of Liberty National
Monument and Ellis Island.
To read an article about the exhibit see:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/28/arts/design/antwerp-to-ellis-island-journey-of-a-lifetime.html
[or http://tinyurl.com/z9xgbol --Mod]

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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