I traveled nearly 230 miles to a tiny city on the shoreline of Lake Ontario, where I learned of the deeply rooted Holocaust survivor history tied to New York state. My trip to Oswego, NY, was twofold: ...

The British raid on Fort Ontario in Oswego NY in 1813, during the War of 1812, resulted in the destruction of the American harbor, but still resulted in a strategic stalemate in the naval conflict on ...

On Aug. 5, 1944, a warm sunny Saturday in Oswego, N.Y., buses holding almost 1,000 mostly Jewish refugees from Europe pulled up to the entrance of the town’s Fort Ontario, a U.S. military site ...

World War I photograph of medical staff at Fort Ontario on the parade ground at Fort Ontario. The officers' row and the stone fort are in the background. The photograph was taken from the area now ...

Oswego, NY -- What a difference a year makes. In the spring of 2010, Fort Ontario was a bit of a ghost town. Gov. David Paterson had closed the fort along with 41 state parks and 13 other historic ...

Fort Ontario was the only shelter in the United States for Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust. Fort Ontario in Oswego, N.Y. has a storied history, playing a role in the French and Indian War, the ...

My visit to the sprawling Fort Ontario was where I learned little-known history about how a group of World War II Holocaust survivors were relocated to U.S. soil. -Credit:Athena Dawson I traveled ...