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1. Twins at the Fort Ontario Refugee Center,
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 60013
Date:
August 1944
…Twins at the Fort Ontario Refugee Center,…
2. Refugees arrive at Fort Ontario
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Film | Accession Number: 1991.252.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0015 | Film ID: 3
Film Title:
US Haven From War
Date:
Event: 1944 August 06
Duration:
00:00:49
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Refugees arrive at Fort Ontario…
3. Two young residents at the Fort Ontario Refugee center.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 60039
Date:
May 1945
…Two young residents at the Fort Ontario Refugee center.…
4. A youth group dance at the Fort Ontario Refugee Center.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 60044
Date:
May 1945
…A youth group dance at the Fort Ontario Refugee Center.…
5. Refugees at Fort Ontario in Oswego, NY
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Film | RG Number: RG-60.7224 | Film ID: 4545
Film Title:
Over the Rainbow Bridge
Date:
Event: 1944 August
Production: 1946
Duration:
00:14:22
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Refugees at Fort Ontario in Oswego, NY…
6. Children and leaders of a Fort Ontario cub scout troop.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 49327
Date:
1944 - 1945
… joined them and a convoy of 982 refugees. They sailed from Italy aboard the Henry Gibbons on July 8, 1944 and came to the Fort Ontario refugee shelter in…
7. The assorted baggage of refugees lies outside the barracks at the Fort Ontario refugee center.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 60014
Date:
August 1944
…The assorted baggage of refugees lies outside the barracks at the Fort Ontario refugee center.…
8. Refugee youth attend a social club gathering at the Fort Ontario refugee center.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 06497
Date:
1944 - 1946
…Refugee youth attend a social club gathering at the Fort Ontario refugee center.…
9. Refugee youth living at the Fort Ontario refugee center study in a high school classroom.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 38545
Date:
1944 - 1945
…Refugee youth living at the Fort Ontario refugee center study in a high school classroom.…
10. A female refugee goes through custom's inspection upon arrival at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 18391
Date:
1944 August 05
…A female refugee goes through custom's inspection upon arrival at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York.…
11. Girls from the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Center pose for a group photo
Photograph | Photograph Number: 43811
Date:
1945 - 1947
…Girls from the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Center pose for a group photo…
12. View of the interior of the chapel at the Fort Ontario refugee center.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 60020
Date:
1946
…View of the interior of the chapel at the Fort Ontario refugee center.…
13. 11-year-old Julius Krauthamer at the Fort Ontario emergency refugee shelter in Oswego, New York.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 05050
Date:
1945
…11-year-old Julius Krauthamer at the Fort Ontario emergency refugee shelter in Oswego, New York.…
14. Jacob Waksman with his son, Andre, in the Fort Ontario Refugee Center.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 60019
Date:
1944
…Jacob Waksman with his son, Andre, in the Fort Ontario Refugee Center.…
15. Irma Gruenberg stands at the entrace of a barracks in the Fort Ontario refugee center.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 49326
Date:
1944 - 1945
…Irma Gruenberg stands at the entrace of a barracks in the Fort Ontario refugee center.…
16. Jewish refugees eat a meal in a dining room at Fort Ontario.
Photograph | Photograph Number: 85373
Date:
After June 1944
…Jewish refugees eat a meal in a dining room at Fort Ontario.…
17. Group portrait of children dressed in Purim costumes in the Fort Ontario refugee center.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 49325
Date:
1944 - 1945
…Group portrait of children dressed in Purim costumes in the Fort Ontario refugee center.…
18. Mary Campo teaches a hairstyling class at the Fort Ontario refugee center.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 09602
Date:
May 1945
…Mary Campo teaches a hairstyling class at the Fort Ontario refugee center.…
19. Newly arrived refugees stand in line to get soap and towels at the Fort Ontario shelter.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 18393
Date:
August 1944
…Newly arrived refugees stand in line to get soap and towels at the Fort Ontario shelter.…
20. Jewish youth living at the Fort Ontario refugee shelter sing songs accompanied by an accordionist.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 38547
Date:
1944 - 1945
…Jewish youth living at the Fort Ontario refugee shelter sing songs accompanied by an accordionist.…
21. Newly arrived refugees wait in line to complete their registration at the Fort Ontario Refugee Center in Oswego, New York.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 89380
Date:
1944 - 1946
…Newly arrived refugees wait in line to complete their registration at the Fort Ontario Refugee Center in Oswego, New York.…
22. Military police check the tags of a refugee father and daughter on arrival at the Fort Ontario refugee center.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 18396
Date:
August 1944
…Military police check the tags of a refugee father and daughter on arrival at the Fort Ontario refugee center.…
23. A Jewish refugee family lights a Hanukkah menorah in their room at the Fort Ontario refugee shelter.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 38542
Date:
1944 - 1945
…A Jewish refugee family lights a Hanukkah menorah in their room at the Fort Ontario refugee shelter.…
24. Refugee youth pose with milk bottles and bag lunches in a dining room at the Fort Ontario refugee shelter.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 38546
Date:
1944 - 1945
…Refugee youth pose with milk bottles and bag lunches in a dining room at the Fort Ontario refugee shelter.…
25. Tamar's mother Hana (second from left) works in the kitchen at Fort Ontario.
Photograph | Photograph Number: 43812
Date:
1945 - 1946
…REFUGEES (FORT ONTARIO)…
26. Tamar and her cousin Gisele pose on a tree branch in Fort Ontario.
Photograph | Photograph Number: 43814
Date:
1945 - 1946
…REFUGEES (FORT ONTARIO)…
27. The Hendel family poses for a group portrait in Fort Ontario.
Photograph | Photograph Number: 43813
Date:
1945 - 1946
…REFUGEES (FORT ONTARIO)…
28. Newly arrived refugees receive food and drink at a picnic at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 18398
Date:
1944
…Newly arrived refugees receive food and drink at a picnic at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York.…
29. A father, holding his daughter, checks his tags during check in at the Fort Ontario refugee shelter.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 18397
Date:
August 1944
…A father, holding his daughter, checks his tags during check in at the Fort Ontario refugee shelter.…
30. 12-year-old Zigmund Krauthamer poses in front of a barracks at the Fort Ontario emergency refugee shelter.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 05048
Date:
1945
…12-year-old Zigmund Krauthamer poses in front of a barracks at the Fort Ontario emergency refugee shelter.…
31. Newly arrived refugees receive food and drink at a picnic at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 18399
Date:
1944
…Newly arrived refugees receive food and drink at a picnic at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York.…
32. Group portrait of five boys living at the Fort Ontario emergency refugee shelter in Oswego, New York.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 05054
Date:
1945
…Group portrait of five boys living at the Fort Ontario emergency refugee shelter in Oswego, New York.…
33. Fort Ontario refugees pose with their classmates on the steps of the public high school in Oswego, New York.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 06496
Date:
August 1944
…Fort Ontario refugees pose with their classmates on the steps of the public high school in Oswego, New York.…
34. An arriving refugee declares what he is bringing into the country to a customs official at the Fort Ontario Refugee Center in Oswego, NY.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 60000
Date:
1944 August 05
…An arriving refugee declares what he is bringing into the country to a customs official at the Fort Ontario Refugee Center in Oswego, NY.…
35. Jakob, Irma and Walter Gruenberg stand by a registration desk in Fort Ontario underneath a portrait of George Washington.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 49324
Date:
1944 - 1945
… joined them and a convoy of 982 refugees. They sailed from Italy aboard the Henry Gibbons on July 8, 1944 and came to the Fort Ontario refugee shelter in…
36. Newly arrived refugees are checked in at the Fort Ontario shelter by representatives of the War Relocation Authority and the U.S. Army.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 18394
Date:
August 1944
…Newly arrived refugees are checked in at the Fort Ontario shelter by representatives of the War Relocation Authority and the U.S. Army.…
37. Eleanor Roosevelt visits Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, NY, where the Hendels were relocated upon arrival to U.S.
Photograph | Photograph Number: 43810
Date:
1945 - 1947
…Eleanor Roosevelt visits Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, NY, where the Hendels were relocated upon arrival to U.S.…
38. Newly arriving refugees are checked in at the Fort Ontario shelter by representatives of the War Relocation Authority and the U.S. Army.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 18392
Date:
1944 August 05
…Newly arriving refugees are checked in at the Fort Ontario shelter by representatives of the War Relocation Authority and the U.S. Army.…
39. The day after their arrival at Fort Ontario Father J.J. Davem pronounces an invocation at a welcome ceremony for the European refugees.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 60018
Date:
1944
…The day after their arrival at Fort Ontario Father J.J. Davem pronounces an invocation at a welcome ceremony for the European refugees.…
40. Group portrait of Jewish youth dressed in Purim costumes at the Fort Ontario refugee shelter. One of them is dressed as Adolf Hitler.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 38543
Date:
1944 - 1945
…Group portrait of Jewish youth dressed in Purim costumes at the Fort Ontario refugee shelter. One of them is dressed as Adolf Hitler.…
41. Newly arrived refugees are checked in at the Fort Ontario shelter by representatives of the War Relocation Authority and the U.S. Army; baggage is inspected by U.S. customs officials.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 18395
Date:
August 1944
…Newly arrived refugees are checked in at the Fort Ontario shelter by representatives of the War Relocation Authority and the U.S. Army; baggage is…
42. Joseph H. Smart papers
1992.A.0092 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0092 | RG Number: RG-10.056.01
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1992
… position to head the Friends of Fort Ontario 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 Fort Ontario Guest Refugees, and the original…
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43. Hendel and Weissman families papers
2016.497.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 40
Document | Accession Number: 2016.497.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1956
… 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 Fort Ontario…
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 … Rome, Italy, and their experiences as refugees at the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York. There are also pre-war photographs of…
44. Columbia University Library, New York : the Varian Fry papers : the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter papers / edited by Karen J. Greenberg.
Publication | Library Call Number: D810.J4 A735 1989 v. 5
Published:
New York : Garland, 1990
Availability
…Columbia University Library, New York : the Varian Fry papers : the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter papers / edited by Karen J. Greenberg.…
45. Lehmann family papers
1995.A.0095 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 137
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0095
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1994
bulk: 1941-1946
… camp in southern Italy, and later as refugees in Fort Ontario. 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 Fort Ontario. Included in…
46. Deutscher family papers
2016.122.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.122.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2002
… telegrams. The photographs include a photograph of Beile at Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York; a photograph of Edmund Deutscher…
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 … include a photograph of Beile at Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York; a photograph of Edmund Deutscher wearing his United States…
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47. Lillian Bronner Glass papers
Document | Accession Number: 1996.52
Date:
circa 1945
…Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter (U.S.)…
48. Steffi Steinberg Winters papers
1989.272 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1989.272 | RG Number: RG-10.378
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1946
…The Steffi Steinberg Winters papers consist of newspaper clippings related to Jewish refugees at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York; compositions…
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 … Jewish refugees at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York; compositions written by Steffi Steinberg (later Winters) during her time at Oswego High School; and…
49. André Waksman collection
2017.476.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.476.2
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2009
bulk: 2007-2009
… family sailed to the United States aboard the USAT Henry Gibbins and were admitted to the Emergency Refugee Shelter at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York on…
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 … including their flight France to Italy and as refugees with their son André at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York from 1944-1946. Included are identification…
50. Oral history interview with Ivo Lederer
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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 Fort Ontario 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…