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DAy 12: Uetersen to Ballinstadt Emigrant Museum

7/28/2016

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For about five million European emigrants from 1850 to 1939, Hamburg was the "Gateway to the World." At the Port of Hamburg they left their homeland to head off to the New World seeking their fortune. The Ballinstadt museum is dedicated to those emigrants.
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It has been a most fascinating day. But I am exhausted.  More about this day to be posted tomorrow
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