Guests of the President: How 982 Holocaust Refugees Found Unlikely Hope in an American Town

The definitive and moving account of America’s only World War II Holocaust refugee shelter.

Nearly eighty years ago, the residents of a small town in upstate New York welcomed a group of refugees that changed the town forever. The 982 people were the only refugees to enter the United States outside of the immigration system during the Holocaust. They represented nineteen nationalities and spoke more than a dozen different languages. Most were Jewish. They were doctors, janitors, comedians, p...