Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-24) has reintroduced a bill to establish Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York, as a National ...

Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, along with Representative Claudia Tenney, have reintroduced legislation to ...

The expansion is called the Gallagher Park Improvement Project, named after the area near the fort’s grounds containing the ...

The Holocaust Refugee Shelter at Fort Ontario was a place of safety and hope during a dark moment in history,” said the bill’s chief Senate sponsor, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

During WWII, Fort Ontario Was The Only Shelter In The United States for Jewish Refugees Fleeing The Holocaust; Legislation Would Keep Their Stories Alive For Generations To Come  WASHINGTON, D.C.

The fort is believed to be Fort Ontario, a state historic site in the city of Oswego. Pictures of the two girls at the historic site in October were found on Farr’s phone, prosecutors said.

OSWEGO, NY – It was ... at numerous Army bases, from Fort Bragg in North Carolina to Germany. Tommy was from Rochester and urged a move to Upstate New York. Kimmes, originally from Pinehurst ...

Isak’s group landed in New York and spent the next year and a half at Fort Ontario Army base in Oswego, New York under the control of the U.S. War Relocation Authority. At the conclusion of the War, ...