The Museum’s Collections document the fate of Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others through artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, personal stories, and more. Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center.
… position to head the Friends of FortOntario Guest Refugees, an organization that mounted a successful campaign by Shelter residents to gain permission to…
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… Refugees: How They Won Their Freedom, a typed manuscript of his 1992 companion volume The Documents: Friends of FortOntario Guest Refugees, and the original…
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… August 1944 the Hendels were able to get on a refugee ship, the USNS Henry Gibbins, and sail to the United States. They were relocated to the FortOntario…
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… Rome, Italy, and their experiences as refugees at the FortOntario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York. There are also pre-war photographs of…
… camp in southern Italy, and later as refugees in FortOntario. Included in the papers is Arthur’s handwritten memoir, entitled "Scenes of Life in…
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… son, Richard, through their imprisonment at the Ferramonti concentration camp in southern Italy, and later as refugees in FortOntario. Included in…
… telegrams. The photographs include a photograph of Beile at FortOntario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York; a photograph of Edmund Deutscher…
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… include a photograph of Beile at FortOntario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York; a photograph of Edmund Deutscher wearing his United States…
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…The Steffi Steinberg Winters papers consist of newspaper clippings related to Jewish refugees at FortOntario in Oswego, New York; compositions…
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… Jewish refugees at FortOntario in Oswego, New York; compositions written by Steffi Steinberg (later Winters) during her time at Oswego High School; and…
… family sailed to the United States aboard the USAT Henry Gibbins and were admitted to the Emergency Refugee Shelter at FortOntario in Oswego, New York on…
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… including their flight France to Italy and as refugees with their son André at FortOntario in Oswego, New York from 1944-1946. Included are identification…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0458.13 | RG Number: RG-50.413.0013
Date:
interview: 1994 August 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Safe Haven, Inc. conducted the interviews as part of a project documenting the testimonies of refugees from the FortOntario Emergency Refugee…
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… the light of the refugee crisis in 1993, when he was interviewed. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information…
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Learn about over 1,000 camps and ghettos in Volumes I-III of this encyclopedia, which are available as a free PDF download. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes.