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Transcript: United States World War II Refugee Camp Has Reunion
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- August 8, 1994
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LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host: During World War II, anti-semitism and public
attitudes against immigration blocked this country's doors to most
people fleeing Nazi persecution. But 50 years ago this summer, the
only refuge in the United States for Jews escaping the horrors of
Nazi Germany opened on the outskirts of Oswego, located on Lake Ontario
in upstate New York.
Nine hundred eighty-two Europeans were held for 18 months at Fort
Ontario, an old army base, before they were permitted to stay in the
country. Over the weekend, these survivors of the holocaust, returned
to Fort Ontario for a 50th reunion.
Chris Ulanowski from member station WRVO in ...