![American military police admit a father and daughter, both displaced persons, to the refugee shelter at Fort Ontario. [LCID: 60010b]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/466c1690-bb56-4313-b8be-b2dce3e9b94f.jpg "American military police admit a father and daughter, both displaced persons, to the refugee shelter at Fort Ontario. [LCID: 60010b]")
American military police admit a father and daughter, both displaced persons, to the refugee shelter at Fort Ontario. Oswego, New York, United States, after August 4, 1944.
Item View![Jewish refugees from Europe arrive at the emergency refugee shelter at Fort Ontario. [LCID: 60010c]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/4df60022-b3c2-4407-9e10-f186a681d369.jpg "Jewish refugees from Europe arrive at the emergency refugee shelter at Fort Ontario. [LCID: 60010c]")
Jewish refugees from Europe arrive at the emergency refugee shelter at Fort Ontario, in the United States. A father, holding his daughter, checks his tags. Oswego, New York, United States, August 4, 1944.
Item View![Newly arrived refugees at a picnic in Fort Ontario. [LCID: 60017b]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/d3957f91-a0b4-48dd-93a3-fb1c21592c19.jpg "Newly arrived refugees at a picnic in Fort Ontario. [LCID: 60017b]")
Newly arrived refugees at a picnic in Fort Ontario. Oswego, New York, United States, 1944.
Item View![John Pehle, Executive Director of the War Refugee Board. [LCID: 85940]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/3b450875-d189-4d52-b91e-a956defef878.jpg "John Pehle, Executive Director of the War Refugee Board. [LCID: 85940]")
Portrait of John Pehle, Executive Director of the War Refugee Board. United States, 1940s.
Item View![Meeting of the War Refugee Board in the office of Executive Director John Pehle. [LCID: 85939]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/a826c097-cea9-420d-812a-57c8ee5877a1.jpg "Meeting of the War Refugee Board in the office of Executive Director John Pehle. [LCID: 85939]")
Meeting of the War Refugee Board in the office of Executive Director John Pehle. Pictured left to right are Albert Abrahamson, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Josiah Dubois, and Pehle. Washington, DC, United States, March 21, 1944.
Item View![Photo taken in Secretary of State Cordell Hull's office on the occasion of the third meeting of the War Refugee Board. [LCID: 85938]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/e9a297a8-9be5-4211-a1c1-cbb5dc4bd42d.jpg "Photo taken in Secretary of State Cordell Hull's office on the occasion of the third meeting of the War Refugee Board. [LCID: 85938]")
Photo taken in Secretary of State Cordell Hull's office on the occasion of the third meeting of the War Refugee Board. Hull is at the left, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., is in the center, and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson is at the right. Washington, DC, United States, March 21, 1944.
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