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The Trip To Eli's Island

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"The trip to the United States was awful. All of the other immigrants on the boat had to be really close to each other," Yulia says " because everyone was tightly pressed together in a little area, when one person got sick many people would. Eventually the sickest people( typically the elderly and children) started to die. By the time we got to Elis Island, about a third of the immigrants were dead." Kira tried her best to protect Yulia from the horrific illnesses and deaths but that was almost impossible due to their situation.

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