European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A welcoming Beacon to immigrants by Eileen Putman associated press o the immigrants who battled Lowth Limra find Roi Jyh seas. The statue of Libei by a s �  Beacon a mystical Madonna who e homeless newcomers weep  Init Swatch of Dlohos c the people Alec scion Ming and some of them any crying and Sonio of them were dancing it was All kind of a joyous decl mrs us coming to the land of Freedom and a Kim i of   of  3 Iarsen of new Yak cily who Camo from Russia in 191 1 a ago 13 Seymour resale of Manhattan. Who was when he came from  in the Early 1920s, remembers his boat pulled into or a Yolk Harbor in a driving rainstorm Evcic Hod /v.asondeck, no matter they did t mind the ram at All.  just to cheer that they came the came to America their a per fences were repealed by Many immigrants who historians say went through a n us of rebirth As they shed their old lives in a new land  went through enormous hardships to got he e As L�ry do religious persecution oppression or poverty seeking in opportunities and a belter Wayole life the statue played an important role in thai especially in the Peak immig Rallon periods Early Century there Aie accounts irom hat period o time from fhe 1920s and earlier by immigrants who actually Lalk about seeing this tremendous lady Oil in the Mist said Virr Jim Yans ecu Mcanin. A Rutgers universe Ray professor of re Jgr who specializes in immigration mailers if you make trial Long journey to a now land to make your life again it s a tremendous image it s whimsical it has a kind of fantasy element of it " the immigrants often arrived i impoverished and Homes Csc most had journeyed across the Ocean confined for 12 Days or More in Hie widow less Steerage quarters below deck sleeping on Topio i erect Iron bunks wish Straw Malta Csecs and no pillows there was no privacy no space sanitary conditions were poor. They had to scrape together the 130 to $50 passage. Their ships made their Way through Iho Narrows the Waters Between Brooklyn and Stalen Island then turned North past Ifica statue just a Lew Hundred Yards irom Ellis Island there they were examined processed and some limbs detained in crude crowded quarters the Island could be a Gnu place. The statue with her upheld Torch was a plimme. Goddess Ike. Barbara Barondess. 79, of Manhattan remembers How �5 a russian child of 1 -1 she was held Wilh her Amity on Ellis Island in1921 in several clays i was like a jail with people of Many languages huddled together in fear she said her sister she recalled. Was sick with a terrible Ever i spent almost the whole night outside of he Bull dog praying to the statue of Liberty who i called my first Girlfriend and saying you know please reach  Sarong Essaid Many of the immigrants from that period have told hew stories to historians on Lapo Susan Kai Cik an a fanic specialist a i Law smrt Sonia i institution who look some of the Oral histories. Said Many immigrants did not actually recall seeing the Saluo but Only Lafor looked Back on heir exp minces and remembered it in s Tow Teceno movie makers like to put in ii was Allerway it icy began to Pul All hat together and have a sense that Itol was the turning Point for Vliem she said. People ponied it out to them and they remembered  in photo immigrants await processing on Ellis Island 1305proud to be alsatian  new York times Mong the millions of people a Pec led to he in new York for the statue of Liberty Ceni Conral Celebration will be a Small intensely proud group of als tans and alsatian americans who think of the Lalue As an Extension of their own Hetlage. Their hero is Frederic Augusta Bartholdi Trie statue s sculptor. Who was born in Alsace. Every year Simca 1886. Members of the alsatian Community in hew York Many in traditional red Apro Ned skirts and big Black bowed headdresses have gathered on Liberty Island at the fool of the Lalue to celebrate its Bihday Over to july 4 weekend 10 musicians and 20 Folk dancers irom Alsace and 16 other dancers irom the town of Ca Scioville Texas will join in he res a Harbor festival in lower Manhattan. They will perform native dances and then invite the Public to dance on Slac e to in. There is no festival unless you have a band and a Folk Lonc dance group said Robert h Schmidi. Pies Denio in Nion als Acierno. Every sunday