Eugeen van Mieghem

Around 1900 both the ports of Antwerp and New York ranked high in the select group of world ports.
The United States on the other side of the Atlantic was starting a period of unprecedented economic growth following
the civil war.
Durin a period of 60 years (1873 - 1934) the Red Star Line shipping company million migrants to the new world.
The assassination of Tsar alexander II of Russia in 1881 and subsequent anti-Jewish economic legislation resulted in a massive Jewish exodus. The worst pogroms took