France sends second Statue of Liberty to US

Published June 12, 2021 12:00am ET



France is sending a second Statue of Liberty to be erected on Ellis Island, across the water from the original on Liberty Island.

The 10-foot “little sister,” one-sixteenth the size of the original “New Colossus,” was taken out of France’s Museum of Arts and Crafts in a ceremony on Monday, a day after the 77th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy.

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