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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: The Ft Ontario Holocaust Refugees (1944) w/ Sarah Botstein
Description: It’s July 18th. This day in 1944, a group of almost one thousand refugees are headed to the United States, where they would eventually be housed at Ft Ontario, in New York. This was the only large group of Holocaust refugees permitted to enter the United States during World War II.
Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by filmmaker Sarah Botstein to discuss the Ft Ontario group and how the US thought about refugees in this era.
Sarah was a co-director and producer, alongside Ken Burns and Lynn Novak, of the documentary series “The U.S. A...