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National Archives Nationwide Network and Attachments: Faces and Stories from America’s Gates

  • A woman from Michigan, married to a Chinese man, who learns upon trying to leave the country that under US law at the time, when she married her husband, she lost her US citizenship and “became Chinese” for immigration purposes. 

  • A Hawaiian boy taken by his parents to Japan who returns years later wanting to work in California. However, US immigration officers doubt his story and detain him at Angel Island, despite his Hawaiian birth certificate. 

  • A Chinese woman who sails for the US in 1927 with her new husband. The couple devises strategies that allow them to successfully negotiate prejudices about Chinese women trying to enter the country for immoral purposes. Seventy years later, their granddaughter discovers their wedding photograph in her grandmother’s immigration file.  

  • A young Polish child — whose parents are murdered by the Nazis — hides for two years in the Polish forests with an uncle and cousin. The boy survives the war but then spends six years in four refugee camps. Finally, in 1951, he is able to leave Germany and comes with his cousin to the US. He ends up in Cleveland, Ohio, where he is placed in a foster family, and becomes a US citizen.

The Archives Shop  features an exhibition catalog and new Genealogy Tool kit in conjunction with “Attachments: Faces and Stories from America’s Gates.” All Archives Shop proceeds support the National Archives Experience and educational programming at the National Archives. 

The National Archives is located on the National Mall on Constitution Avenue at 9th Street, NW. Spring/summer hours are 10 AM — 7 PM (March 15-Labor Day). 

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