- Headline
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'Free Ports' For Jews In U. S. Now Proposed
- Publication Date
- Monday, May 15, 1944
- Historical Event
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FDR Shelters Refugees in Oswego, NY
This database includes 723 articles about this event - Tags
- Article Type
- Newspaper
- Location
- Page Section and Number
- 7
- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- NEW YORK. May 14 (AP)—The emergency committee to save the Jewish people of Europe asked President Roosevelt today to establish temporary rescue camps in the United States to "give helpless victims of Nazi frightfulness some chance of survival."
In a telegraphic appeal, the committee told the President such "free ports" also should be set up in Palestine, North Africa and "throughout the free world."
"Out of all of the territory controlled by the United Nations and by friendly neutrals," the committee said, "a total of 25 square miles allocated for this purpose would provide safety for countless thousands of condemned Jewish people of Europe.
"Post-war status of people in camps can be settled then and as insurance given that no immigration laws will be violated." - History Unfolded Contributor
- Patricia P.
- Location of Research
- Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com)
Learn More about this Historical Event: FDR Shelters Refugees in Oswego, NY
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- Oral Histories: Emergency Refugee Shelter at Fort Ontario (Oswego State University of New York)
Bibliography
Breitman, Richard, and Alan Kraut. American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933–1945. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Feingold, Henry. The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust, 1938–1945. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1970.
Friedman, Saul. No Haven for the Oppressed: United States Policy Toward Jewish Refugees, 1938–1945. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1973.
Gruber, Ruth. Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America. New York: Times Books/Random House, 2000.
Lowenstein, Sharon. “A New Deal for Refugees: The Promise and Reality of Oswego.” In America, American Jews, and the Holocaust, edited by Jeffrey S. Gurock, 301–317. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Lowenstein, Sharon R. Token Refuge: The Story of the Jewish Refugee Shelter at Oswego, 1944–1946. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
Marks, Edward B. Token Shipment: The Story of America’s War Refugee Shelter. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, [1946].
Smart, Joseph H. Don’t Fence Me In!: Fort Ontario Refugees: How They Won Their Freedom. Salt Lake City: Heritage Arts, 1991.
Syrkin, Marie. “At Fort Ontario.” In The State of the Jews, 247–254. Washington, DC: New Republic Books, 1980.
Warnes, Kathy. “Don’t Fence Me In!”: Memories of the Fort Ontario Refugees and their Friends. Oswego, NY: Safe Haven Inc., Museum and Education Center, 2004.
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