More than Chinese Americans came to Angel Islandpublished Sat, Jul 24 2010 02:00 GMT
Fleeing Nazi-occupied Austria, Elfriede "Alice" Edelstein and her mother boarded a boat with 100 other Jewish refugees and headed across the sea in 1940. Yet when they reached the U.S. coast, the two women were greeted not by Lady Liberty's golden torch but...
Austria - Nazism - United States - Chinese American - Jewish refugees
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