Alex, a posh Englishwoman, finds no friends among the staff of Ellis Island, who have her strip down for exams that violate her and forcibly reveal her four-month pregnancy, something she learns ...

New York’s Ellis Island was, from 1892 to 1954 ... Typically, the test-takers had just arrived after a long voyage aboard ship, often in horrific conditions, and they were in a foreign land.

disembarks her ship after a precarious ocean voyage, only to encounter more horrors while passing through Ellis Island. Here, Schlaepfer looks back at the filming of the episode titled “Wrap ...

can be considered Philadelphia’s Ellis Island. But it wasn’t the first place new arrivals docked at. After months of crowded ...

Among the show's difficult moments is Alexandra, played by Julia Schlaepfer, undergoing a rigorous and intrusive medical examination upon her arrival at Ellis Island. This image has spurred ...

Between 1892 and 1954, more than twelve million immigrants passed through the U.S. immigration portal at Ellis Island, enshrining it as an icon of America's welcome. That story is well known.

Ellis Island straddles New York and New Jersey and commemorates ... many of whom had already spent days and sometimes months on crowded, unsanitary ships to escape persecution and poverty in their ...

Between 1892 and 1954, more than twelve million immigrants passed through the U.S. immigration portal at Ellis Island, enshrining it as an icon of America's welcome. That story is well known.