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Ignat Mezel
Published Apr 23, 1953: New York -- Journey to Nowhere - Ignat Mezel, 56, a man without a country, boards the ferry to Ellis Island, where, possibly , he may be confined the rest of his life on April 22, 1953. Mr, Mezel had lived peaceably in Buffalo for twenty-five years efore he got enmeshed with the law on a trip to visit his dying mother in Romania. (Meyer Leibowitz/The New York Times)