The shelter and the fence : when 982 Holocaust refugees found safe haven in America

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Label

The shelter and the fence : when 982 Holocaust refugees found safe haven in America

Title remainder

when 982 Holocaust refugees found safe haven in America

Statement of responsibility

Norman H. Finkelstein

Creator

• Finkelstein, Norman H

Author

• Finkelstein, Norman H

Subject

• Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter (U.S.) -- Juvenile literature
• Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Juvenile literature
• Jewish refugees
• Jewish refugees
• Jewish refugees -- New York (State) | Oswego -- Juvenile literature
• Jews
• Jews -- New York (State) | Oswego
• Jews -- New York (State) | Oswego -- Juvenile literature
• Juvenile works
• Emigration and immigration
• Oswego (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations
• Oswego (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations -- Juvenile literature
• United States
• United States -- Emigration and immigration
• United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile literature
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews | Rescue
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews | Rescue -- Juvenile literature
• New York (State) -- Oswego
• Ethnic relations

Genre

• Juvenile works
• Juvenile literature

Language

eng

Summary

" In 1944, at the height of World War II, 982 European refugees found a temporary haven at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York. They were men, women, and children who had spent frightening years one step ahead of Nazi pursuers and death. They spoke nineteen different languages, and, while most of the refugees were Jewish, a number were Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Protestant Christians. From the time they arrived at the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter on August 5 they began re-creating their lives and embarked on the road to becoming American citizens. In the history of World War II and the Holocaust, this "token" save by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the War Refugee Board was too little and too late for millions. But for those few who reached Oswego it was life changing. The Shelter and the Fence tells their stories." -- Amazon.com

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

362.8/7089924

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction