Ellis Island

You get most touched when you are least expecting something, to move you the way you had never imagined. It comes like a Tsunami and blows you away. It’s a life long experience and you never forget it.

Our plan was to visit Statue of Liberty and because the ferry goes to Ellis Island as well, we made a visit there. From the moment I stepped into the building I could feel the presence of thousands of people who crossed those very doors. The difference was I was walking through those doors almost 100 years later and I had a camera in my hand. People who visited 100 years back had all their belongings in their hand, everything they saved all their life was with them at that very moment. I am not a stranger to people migrating in thousands. I had heard stories from my Grandmother of her trip from Pakistan to India when India was partitioned and majority of Hindus migrated from Pakistan to India and vice versa. It is never pleasant when you have to leave your home, your village, your people and your livelihood behind and move to a strange place where you are nobody besides a number on your passport and sometimes not even that.

You can read more about Ellis Island  here

Here are some pictures from the trip. Click once for larger size click again for full size.

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Note- Some pictures might be offensive to some people. We don’t mean any offense these pictures are there to depict the emotion of that generation, and we feel that we have come a long way since then. Every human being deserves respect irrespective.