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Wicker baskets, canvas bags, weath- ered old trunks are piled high in a display case along one wall._ That's the first sight we see when we enter the Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island: a small sampling of the millions of pieces of bag- gage that new arrivals car- ried across the seas. They brought their baskets and parcels and suitcases in- to the baggage room at Ellis Island, the last step on their journey to a new life. The sight of these varied pieces of luggage is an ap- propriate way for us, the modern visitors who are descendants of the im- migrants, to begin a tour that re-creates their journey. Like many visitors who have come to Ellis Island since it re-opened last September after an extensive five year renovation, we came as a family. Five of us, representing three genera- tions, came on the ferry ride from Battery Park. We were eager to see the multi-media exhibits in the modern im- migration museum — unique in the country — and to walk in the shadow of our ancestors. Standing in the baggage room, I thought about my maternal grandparents, Ger- trude and Joseph Goldberg, who came from Boditichiv, Russia, over 100 years ago, and who put their bags down in this room where my mother, my three nieces — their great-granddaughters — and I now stood. And I thought about my paternal grandparents, Isidore and Rebecca Schwartz, who came from Bucharest, Rumania, and who probably climbed the same stairs we climbed. Ex- cept in their case, medical of- ficials were observing them and noting limps and other visible disabilities that would disqualify some of the new arrivals. On the second floor, we entered the vast registry room where my grandparents, too, saw these giant arched windows and the American flag draped in one corner. We, too, sat down on the benches — some of them the original ones — where they sat, waiting to answer questions from immigration officials. Though conditions were harsh, the immigrants sweetened the voyage with personal mementos they carried across the seas. We didn't linger long on the benches — unlike our ancestors, who often waited for hours — for there were varied exhibits to see, displays which will put the experience of our own relatives into a larger context. First, we viewed the second floor exhibit titled "Through America's Gate." The collec- tion covered 14 rooms filled with photos, personal papers, artifacts and audio sound- tracks that cover every stage of the immigration process, including the room where im- migrants who were suspected of being criminals were quizz- ed by the authorities. Then we climbed the stairs to the third floor where, from the mezzanine, we looked down at the expanse of the registry room below. Many tourists were taking photos here: Even on a rainy Sunday,