Fort Ontario

A bill has been reintroduced in Congress to make the Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum in Oswego part of the national park system.

Eighty years after the first World War II refugees arrived at Fort Ontario, former refugees, and their families are gathering to remember.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) was at Safe Haven in Oswego Friday pushing for Fort Ontario to become a national monument. Fort Ontario was the only emergency refugee camp in the country during World War II.

Community members gathered at Fort Ontario Tuesday for a Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, event. The fort previously acted as a Holocaust Refugee Center during World War II.

Oswego Opera Theater is performing “The Golden Cage” this weekend. The opera was performed in 1945 and presumed lost before a chance encounter led to its rediscovery more than 75 years later.

When stories from our local history reveal themselves to have made an impact nationally, a celebration is in order. On Friday, March 6, the Friends of…

This week, Oswego celebrated the small but significant role the city played during World War II. It was the only place in America to serve as a camp for…

Former Holocaust refugees and their families were among the speakers at an event honoring the 75th anniversary of nearly 1,000 refugees arriving from…

Monday is the 75th anniversary of when 982 mostly Jewish European refugees arrived in Oswego. President Franklin D. Roosevelt brought them to the…