Safe Haven Museum and Education Center

Safe Haven Museum and Education Center
Location within New York
Established 2002 (2002)
Location 2 East 7th Street, Oswego, New York
Coordinates 43°27′45″N 76°30′11″W / 43.462372°N 76.503194°W / 43.462372; -76.503194Coordinates: 43°27′45″N 76°30′11″W / 43.462372°N 76.503194°W / 43.462372; -76.503194
Website www.safehavenmuseum.com

The Safe Haven Museum and Education Center is a museum in Oswego, New York that tells the story of 982 mainly Jewish refugees who fled Europe in the U S Government "Safe Haven" program. They came to the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York, in August 1944.

Safe Haven was the only Official U.S. Government activity to Rescue Jewish refugees during the Second World War, for victims of the Nazi Holocaust. The refugees were brought from Italy, but deliberately only from other parts of Europe. They were all fleeing from the Nazis. They were deliberately chosen so that some were non-Jewish to allay anti-semitic fears.

They were placed in Fort Oswego, behind barbed wire, and given no official status, and were told they would be returned to their homelands after the war, and would have no rights as regards entering the United States. In fact, due to political pressure, at the war's end they were allowed to stay in the U.S.A.

Parenthetically, the group included a whole group of Boy Scouts.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ Peterson, Robert (October 2004). "Scouting in a World War II Refugee Troop". Scouting. Retrieved January 25, 2013.


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