'Port of Dreams' emigration museum prepares to open
1. Wide of Ballin city
2. Medium of Ballin city
3. STILL: old photograph of Ballin city
4. STILL: old photograph showing interior of Ballin city
5. Interior of Albert Ballin's office in the Ballin museum
6. Close-up of book about the Hamburg-American line
7. Picture of ship and ceramic goods
8. Porthole containing photograph of emigrants
9. Close-up of passenger list
10. Daughter of emigrants, Helga Jass, setting up wedding photo of her parents
11. SOUNDBITE: (German) Helga Jass, daughter of emigrants:
My mother emigrated in 1930 on the ship Albert Ballin to look for a better future. At home there was not much space because they were ten childre at home and we were poor. She thought she could find a better future, which she finally did.
12. Jass looking at pictures of her parents
13. SOUNDBITE: (German) Helga Jass, daughter of emigrants:
The opening of Ballin city has great importance to me. When I stand in front of my parents pictures I feel very close to them and feel like they can see me here, and this is the place where we are all together again. It is very touching to me.
14. Wide of exhibition
15. Pan of television screens showing clips of emigrants
16. Pan from mock New York arrival terminal to mannequin dressed as emigrant
17. Wide of people sitting in museum
18. Zoom in on Statue of Liberty behind fence
19. Boat leaving Ballin city
20. SOUNDBITE: (German) Jorge Birkner, Ballin museum historian
It is important for us to show the emigrants not only as victims but also as strong people. They did not accept their destiny and decided to change their lives for a better future.
21. Wide of Port of Hamburg pan to the sea
STORYLINE:
A museum remembering the emigration of millions of Europeans over a period spanning more than a hundred years will open in Germany on Wednesday.
The museum in Ballin City, Hamburg, includes historical artifacts and new interactive features chronicling the history of emigration across the continent.
The project was originally announced in 2003 and has been financed by an association specifically set up for the exhibition.
Between 1815 and 1930, more than 50 (m) million people left their European home countries to start a new life in the United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Australia or elsewhere.
At the time of the First World War, 21 percent of native Europeans lived outside Europe.
Albert Ballin, the youngest son of a Jewish merchant from Hamburg, initiated the building of Ballin City when he was only 17 years old.
He simplified the process of emigration for thousands of people who found a new life and destination far away from Europe.
The museum doesn't only document the history but also the present and future of emigrants.
Emigration from Europe had a decisive influence on the continent's history, as well as the future development of the United States, one of the largest destinations for European emigration.
The trend started in western Europe in the first half of the 19th century, with most emigrants coming from Great Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia.
The emigration wave then took hold in the German-speaking countries where emigration peaked in the years 1854, 1872 and 1881.
After Germany, a trend for mass migration moved to those people living in eastern Europe.
Helga Jass' mother began her emigration journey in 1930 from Ballin City when she travelled to New York.
She thought she could find a better future, which she finally did, said Jass at the museum on Monday.
Her mother fell in love with a steward on the journey who tried to help her after she became sea sick; a year later Jass' mother married the steward in New York and they then decided to return to Germany.
For all of the emigrants Hamburg was the port to the world.
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