Jewish Internment in the U.S. during World War II

July 21, 2003

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/21/nyregion/21HOLO.html?pagewanted=print&position=

On July 21, 2003 The New York Times reported that "it has been nearly 60 years, but to many of the Jews kept at an upstate New York refugee camp during World War II, the trauma is still too painful to discuss. Others, however, cannot say enough... Only 134 people survive from the group of nearly 1,000 who were shipped from Italy to an Army camp in Oswego by the United States government in the summer of 1944, and many of them were gathered here today at the home of Judy Goldsmith, daughter of a deceased camp survivor, to reconnect and reminisce... The truth about Jewish internment in the United States is a little-known chapter in the history of World War II, and Ms. Goldsmith said she had opened her home to the former refugees as a way of honoring one of them — her father, who never spoke about those 18 months in upstate New York, and of keeping the story alive."