First hour: Deputy Mayor Cedric Alexander on the State of the City address
Second hour: The documentary, Safe Haven, and honoring victims of the Holocaust
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren delivered her third State of the City address Monday night. In it, she outlined a list of accomplishments from the last year, including that her administration "created or retained more than 30,000 jobs across the entire city." That figure -- among other statements Warren made about her successes -- has been challenged by her opponents. We sit down with Deputy Mayor Cedric Alexander to discuss the address, the administration's goals for the future, and we'll ask our questions and yours.
Then in our second hour, an old army base about 70 miles from Rochester was the only site in the United States to welcome refugees from Europe during the Holocaust. Fort Ontario in Oswego, an internment camp, became home to 982 refugees in 1944, but many people don't know its story or the history and politics behind the refugees' arrival. Now, Fort Ontario is back in the news: there's proposed legislation to make the site a national park. In 1987, WXXI produced a documentary about the camp. It's called Safe Haven. We honor the film's 30th anniversary and the lives of Holocaust victims and survivors by sharing their stories. Our guests:
- Paul Lewis, writer, director, and producer of Safe Haven
- Irving Schild, Holocaust survivor who lived at Fort Ontario
- Warren Heilbronner, Holocaust survivor
