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The AJHS Manuscript Catalog
Cohen, Jack, of Rochester, N.Y. |
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| Type / Call # | Personal / P-317 | Contains papers and correspondence (mostly photocopies)
pertaining to the administration of and activities at Fort
Ontario, the Emergency Refugee Shelter at Aswego, N.Y., which was
established by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944.
Included in the collection are minutes of meetings (1944-1946)
and reports (1944-1946) of the Executive Director of the
Coordinating Committee for Fort Ontario, established to
coordinate efforts by different, primarily Jewish, organizations
to provide services for the residents. The committee was composed of Jewish institutional representatives from Buffalo, Oswego, Rochester, Syracuse and Utica. The papers contain information on Stephen S. Wise; the refugees; the involvement of B'nai B'rith and other organizations; and the religious needs, schools, special programs and working and living conditions of the residents of the Shelter. Much of the material relates to the art program at the Shelter. The collection also includes the
papers of Joseph H. Smart, the first Director of the Shelter and
later the Director of the Friends of Fort Ontario, the group
established to secure the release of the refugees at the Shelter;
material relating to the closing of the Shelter in 1946; and
several drafts of Token Shipment, a government publication about
the Shelter. More than a third of the collection consists of the
papers of Mosco Tzechoval (1944-1960), Rabbi of Fort Ontario, and
contains Yiddish sermons, biographical information, personal
letters and letters in English, Hebrew and Yiddish relating to
the refugees and Fort Ontario. | | Language | E, Y & H | | Years | 1944-1960
| | Size | ca. 900 pages |
All AJHS manuscript collections must be accessed
in person on-site at the American Jewish Historical Society. For information on how to research the AJHS archival
collections, essential information about their Reading Room and Regulations can be found at
http://www.ajhs.org/reference/readingrooms.cfm.
The AJHS collections themselves are not available in any electronic form, on this website or elsewhere. The
AJHS has been collecting this material for over 100 years, and preserves it in its archives in the original format,
be it handwritten, typewritten, or printed. For more information on the AJHS' genealogical holdings see the article
"Genealogical Resources at the American Jewish Historical Society".
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