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NEW YORK (JTA) — A database of immigrant arrivals at New York's Ellis Island is slated to become available this week at www.ellisislandrecords.org.

The database contains passenger lists and information about millions of immigrants, including more than 1 million Jews who arrived at the U.S. immigration processing center between 1892 and 1924.