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Safe houses were an integral part of the [[Underground Railroad]], the network of safe house locations that were used to assist [[Slavery in the United States|slaves]] in escaping to the primarily northern free states in the 19th-century United States. Some houses were marked with a statue of an [[African Americans|African American]] man holding a lantern, called "the Lantern Holder".[{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-02-23-2269591966_x.htm|title=Man amasses black history treasure trove -|access-date=28 May 2010|work=USA Today|first=Kathy|last=Matheson|date=23 February 2008}}][{{cite book|title=I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ANv1C6liU1QC|first=Karolyn Smardz|last=Frost|place=New York|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|year=2007|isbn=978-0-374-16481-2}}] |
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Safe houses were an integral part of the [[Underground Railroad]], the network of safe house locations that were used to assist [[Slavery in the United States|slaves]] in escaping to the primarily northern free states in the 19th-century United States. Some houses were marked with a statue of an [[African Americans|African American]] man holding a lantern, called "the Lantern Holder".[{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-02-23-2269591966_x.htm|title=Man amasses black history treasure trove -|access-date=28 May 2010|work=USA Today|first=Kathy|last=Matheson|date=23 February 2008}}][{{cite book|title=I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ANv1C6liU1QC|first=Karolyn Smardz|last=Frost|place=New York|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|year=2007|isbn=978-0-374-16481-2}}] |
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Safe houses also provided a refuge for victims of [[Nazism|Nazi]] persecution and for escaping [[Prisoner of war|prisoners of war]]. Victims, such as [[Anne Frank]] and her family, were harbored clandestinely for extended periods of time. Other Jewish victims that were hidden from the Germans include [[Philip Slier]] and his extended family and friends.[{{cite book|last=Slier|first=Philip "Flip"|author2=Deborah Slier|title=Hidden Letters|publisher=Star Bright Books|edition=illustrated|year=2008|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/hiddenletters0000slie/page/10 10, 159, 160, 161]|url=https://archive.org/details/hiddenletters0000slie/page/10|isbn=978-1887734882}}] |
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Safe houses also provided a refuge for victims of [[Nazism|Nazi]] persecution and for escaping [[Prisoner of war|prisoners of war]]. Victims, such as [[Anne Frank]] and her family, were harbored clandestinely for extended periods of time. Other [[Jews|Jewish]] victims that were hidden from the [[Germans]] include [[Philip Slier]] and his extended family and friends.[{{cite book|last=Slier|first=Philip "Flip"|author2=Deborah Slier|title=Hidden Letters|publisher=Star Bright Books|edition=illustrated|year=2008|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/hiddenletters0000slie/page/10 10, 159, 160, 161]|url=https://archive.org/details/hiddenletters0000slie/page/10|isbn=978-1887734882}}] |
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