This is where many of the Italians first came through Ellis Island, and then settled here, and then eventually moved into mainstream America throughout the rest of the country.
In the first years of the 20th century, America opened its arms to the Rothkowitzes from Dvinsk, as it did to millions of other Jews coming through Ellis Island to the golden medina, the golden city.
For millions of immigrants, from the 1890s through the 1950s, Ellis Island was where they were identified, recorded and given permission to enter the U.S.