The Saturday Evening Post History Minute: The Only World War II Refugee Camp in America

Seventy-five years ago, the U.S. admitted the first large group of refugees: 982 people from 18 different countries, most of whom had escaped from concentration camps. The refugees developed a unique relationship with the residents of Oswego, New York.

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Credits:

Many of the photos and videos are from the collection of the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum (https://www.ushmm.org/)

President Roosevelt in his wheelchair on the porch at Top Cottage in Hyde Park, NY with Ruthie Bie and Fala. (FDR Presidential Library & Museum photograph by Margaret Suckley via the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license)

President Roosevelt, taken at Warm Springs, GA by Nicholas Robbins for Elizabeth Shoumatoff (FDR Presidential Library & Museum via the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license)