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Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum

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An official Path Through History Site! The Safe Haven Museum and Education Center is a museum in Oswego, NY that tells the story of 982 mainly Jewish refugees who fled Europe in the US 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 US Government activity to rescue Jewish refugees during the Second World War, for victims of the Nazi Holocaust. The refugees were brought from Italy, but originated from other parts of Europe. They were all fleeing from the Nazis. They were placed in Fort Ontario, 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 United States.

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