The US Embassy in Bucharest published on Sunday the photo of a Romanian shepherd who emigrated to the American land in 1906.
The Romanian who emigrated to the USA in 1906 PHOTO US Embassy
The United States Embassy in Bucharest published, on the Day of Romanians everywhere, a photo of a Romanian shepherd at the immigration station on Ellis Island, in New York, taken at the beginning of the 20th century.
“On the occasion of Romanians Everywhere Day, we respectfully salute the Romanian communities in the USA and their outstanding contributions. We recognize and appreciate the cultural diversity you bring and are honored to learn from you. Thank you for your positive impact on American society,” the US Embassy in Bucharest sent.
North America has been a real “Promised Land” for millions of Europeans over the centuries. Until the First World War, more than 100,000 Romanians arrived in the USA, most of them from Transylvania.
“Beginning with the year 1900, our Romanian villages in Transylvania are emptying more and more of working hands, and across the ocean a new Romanian-American life begins. Among those who emigrated, some call their families there, and others don't think about those at home anymore. The country of Olt remains only with the rich, with the babes, with the old men, with the poor who have no money for travel and with the girls who, in the end, also go after the strong, in order to get married. The Mărgineni and Târnăveni set out in large groups, followed by the Crișurile, the Apuseni Mountains, Satmarul, Bănatul and Bihorul, so that today there is almost no larger city where there are no Romanians“, recounted priest Ioan Podea, parish priest in the American town of Farrel, in the volume “Emigration in America” (1914).
