Bill Seeks National Historical Park Status for Fort Ontario Holocaust Refugee Shelter
Proposed legislation to grant federal recognition and support for the Fort Ontario historical site in Oswego, New York, was presented during a hearing of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands hearing on Wednesday. Toward the end of World War II, Fort Ontario housed 982 European refugees, mostly Jewish, who had fled the Nazis
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