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OSWEGO â Kevin Hill, president of the Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum Board of Directors, announced Thursday that the newly renovated museum will open to visitors Memorial Day, May 31.
The museum will be open for the 2021 season from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., seven days a week, until Labor Day.
Located at 2 E. Seventh St., Oswego, the Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum is dedicated to the stories of the 982 World War II European refugees who were allowed into the United States as âguestsâ of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The refugees lived at Fort Ontario from August 1944 to February 1946.
The museum was created in the refugee shelterâs old administration building at Fort Ontario in 2002.