Safe Haven Museum
Safe Haven Museum is a museum in New York, at a modelled elevation of 86 m. The Kingdom stands 198 m to the south-southeast, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Fort Ontario State Historic Site, a park 0.2 miles away. Great Lakes Seaway Trail passes 0.3 miles off. 96 named places lie within 25 miles, 21 of them named summits.
The story
The Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum (previously called the Safe Haven Museum and Education Center) is a museum in Oswego, New York, that tells the story of 982 mainly Jewish refugees who fled Europe in the U.S. government "Safe Haven" program. They came to the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York, in August 1944. Safe Haven was the only official U.S. government activity to rescue Jewish refugees during the Second World War, for victims of the the Holocaust. The refugees were brought from Italy, but deliberately only from other parts of Europe. They were all fleeing from the Nazis. They were deliberately chosen so that some incoming refugees were non-Jewish, so as to allay antisemitic fears. They were placed in Fort Ontario, behind barbed wire, and given no official status, and were told they would be returned to their homelands after the war, and would have no rights as regards entering the United States. Due to political pressure, at the war's end they were allowed to stay in the United States.
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Dates from 2002.
Wikidata Q7398480, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 0.3 mi off the Great Lakes Seaway Trail, National
- 17.4 mi off the Revolutionary Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Meteorology Observation Deck · 2 mi
- Paid viewfinder · 28 mi
96 named places within 25 miles
- Fort Ontario State Historic Site: 0.2 mi
- Fitzhugh Park: 0.4 mi
- Washington Square: 0.4 mi
- Lakeside Park: 0.5 mi
- Franklin Square: 0.7 mi
- Gardner Hill: 2.2 mi
- Cornish Hill: 3.8 mi
- Bunker Hill: 4.6 mi
- Worden Hill: 4.9 mi
- Tug Hill: 5.3 mi
- Derrick Boat 8: 0.5 mi
- H. Lee White Marine Museum: 0.6 mi
- Richardson-Bates House Museum: 0.6 mi
- U.S. Army - Tug LT-5: 0.6 mi
- Lost World Museum: 19.2 mi
- Veterans Memorial Park: 0.5 mi
- Syracuse Northern Railroad bridge: 20.0 mi
- Oak Orchard Lock Wall: 23.0 mi
- Fort Brewerton: 23.8 mi
- Fort Brewerton Historic Site: 23.8 mi
- McIntyres Bluff: 10.2 mi
- Sitts Bluff: 11.2 mi
- The Bluffs: 11.4 mi
- Scotts Bluff: 17.3 mi
- Curtiss Gale Wildlife Management Area: 13.5 mi
- Altmar State Forest: 22.3 mi
- Sandy Creek State Forest: 23.7 mi
- Lakeview Wildlife Management Area: 24.2 mi
- Flat Rocks: 1.8 mi
- Stevenson Beach: 11.2 mi
- West Pierhead Light: 0.9 mi
- Herb Garden: 3.2 mi
- Sterling Renaissance Festival: 10.4 mi
- Wolcott Falls: 22.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Safe Haven Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Kingdom | SSE 167° | 198 m | 24.8 mi |
| Cuddeback Hill | SW 214° | 184 m | 20.6 mi |
| Bristol Hill | SE 135° | 154 m | 11.8 mi |
| Hogback Hill | SSW 212° | 147 m | 21.6 mi |
| Mullen Hill | E 96° | 144 m | 11.8 mi |
| Harris Hill | S 184° | 143 m | 11.9 mi |
| Honey Hill | SSE 161° | 136 m | 8.8 mi |
| Woodchuck Hill | SE 143° | 135 m | 16.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:41 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 20:07 | 20:51 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:28 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:36 | 15:46 | 16:33 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 25 | 27 | 34 | 45 | 57 | 66 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 52 | 41 | 31 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 3.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Oswego, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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Day trips start here
- Wolcott · 23 mi
- Sodus Point · 28 mi
- Weedsport · 29 mi
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