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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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)
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