Alex’s Ellis Island ordeal in 1923 is already brutal on the page. She arrives in America exhausted, pregnant, alone, and is immediately pushed through humiliating medical inspections by men who see her as a body to process, not a person to protect.
In her interview with People, Schlaepfer explained that her great-grandfather came through Ellis Island with just fifteen dollars in his pocket.
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