Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter Collection 1944-1947, 1960, 1975

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Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter Collection 1944-1947, 1960, 1975

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The collection consists of Jack Cohen and Mosco Tzechoval’s papers relating to their involvement at the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York, between 1944 and 1946. Materials include correspondence, sermons, minutes, reports, notes, clippings and photographs.

0.5 linear feet (1 manuscript box)

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American Jewish Historical Society

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Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter

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Between August 1944 and January 1946, close to one thousand refugees from war torn Europe were placed in a temporary internment camp at Fort Ontario (Oswego, N.Y.) to await the outcome of the Second World War. The majority of these refugees were Jewish and had recently been liberated from the atrocities of Naziism in Central Europe. From the description of War Refugees of Fort Ontario papers, 1944-1945. (SUNY Oswego). WorldCat record id: 30560909 ...

Smart, Joseph H...

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Tzechoval, Mosco

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Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter In June 1944, the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter was established in Oswego, New York by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was operated by the War Relocation Authority, a government agency. In August 1944, the shelter received 982 refugees of predominantly Jewish descent and of various national backgrounds, especially Yugoslavian, Austrian, Polish, German and Czechoslovakian. Because of their immigration status as ...

Schneersohn, Joseph Isaac, 1880-1950

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Cohen, Jack

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Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter In June 1944, the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter was established in Oswego, New York by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was operated by the War Relocation Authority, a government agency. In August 1944, the shelter received 982 refugees of predominantly Jewish descent and of various national backgrounds, especially Yugoslavian, Austrian, Polish, German and Czechoslovakian. Because of their immigration status as ...

B’nai B’rith International

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