Ellis Island

Ellis Island

Georges Perec

Language: English

Pages: 156

ISBN: 1565843185

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


The French novelist Georges Perec has continually captured the American imagination, most recently with the publication of A Void, a novel written without the letter “e.” Ellis Island holds us in thrall once again. With poetic grace, insistent questioning, and a stunning carousel of images, Perec and filmmaker Robert Bober open our eyes to the intriguing blend of permanence and transience that is Ellis Island.

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Thev were clean becau.-e at that time there weren't product­ like there are today and it wa- normal for children to get lice or tilings liL that. (...) GP: How long wa- lh« trip? Mr M: Well, in (act. from Russia to here took 11 - REMEMBRANCES a year___We -topped in Warsaw. 1 don't remember Russia at that time. I would have preferred exactly how long, but I remember it was not to be born. mi long that 1 thought 1 was in my new country__ There were all -orts of papers to fill out and.

Course. I was old enough to go to school. It was certain]} a year where there were lots * d ’: Thank you very much. It has been a great of immigrants, because in my class there were m am pleasure to meet vou and we hope... boys my age. and even older ones, who came from Mrs. M: that we see each other again. Poland and I kraine and Russia, from everywhere. \t Mr. M: We will see each other again and we hope the time. I spoke three languages: 'l iddish. Lkrainian. that you will be rewarded.

And see him in March of that the people would remain like before, in misen and oppression. 1984. to celebrate his 100th birthday. I During a part of the intervieu that ice were not able to record. Mr. Cha.snnou told us that he was arrested again in 1906 and deported to Siberia, uhere he remained until escaping about two months later, ffe went to Kiev, and then to Odessa, where he got marrit'd— hut he au

Me that my eyes were not healed. At the 1923. I left Warsaw for Danzig. hospital, they were convinced that 1 had paid a Polish doctor to make up my certificate. And this doctor from GP: Were you alone? Ellis Island said that he thought they would send me MS: Yes. 1 was alone. In fact. I had S I .000. My mother back. 1 was scared stiff. had given it to me and I carried it on my chest, under my shirt, in a little bag that she made for me. CP: Scared stiff? GP: I)o you still have the bag?.

Grandmother's life, and my other grandfather's cousin is in Washington. He would lo\e for even one [he was from Poland also). And we remember it and to come back to the Bronx. He doesn't want anyone try to appreciate how they struggled and why the\ ran to leave home. away. The best we can do i.s remember and call it George: Its just the continuation, as Ellen says, of my a part of our past and a part of our roots. But our parent.- leaving their roots, their place, their family.

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