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A bill has been reintroduced in Congress to make the Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum in Oswego part of the national park system.
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The National Park Service said the area of Fort Ontario where the Safe Haven Holocaust Refugees stayed during World War II meets the requirements to be designated a national park.
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Eighty years after the first World War II refugees arrived at Fort Ontario, former refugees, and their families are gathering to remember.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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Former Holocaust refugees and their families were among the speakers at an event honoring the 75th anniversary of nearly 1,000 refugees arriving from…
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Monday is the 75th anniversary of when 982 mostly Jewish European refugees arrived in Oswego. President Franklin D. Roosevelt brought them to the…
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After more than a year, Congress has passed legislation to study the feasibility of designating Fort Ontario and the Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter…