Jews of Dominican Republic

edluv1 said:

The Hidden Faith Project presents the riveting story of how Jewish Holocaust refugees ended up in the Dominican Republic, the only country to take in Jewish refugees during World War II.

YouTube - The Hidden Faith: Jews of Dominican Republic - Chapter 1

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I am glad they took some in, but you can bet your life it wasn't for altruistic reasons.

london777 said:

I am glad they took some in, but you can bet your life it wasn't for altruistic reasons.

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It doesn't matter the reasons why they were allowed in the DR . What does matter is that the Dominican Republic saved SEVEN HUNDRED lives from being gassed in a German Gas Chamber when the UK didn't allow not even one single Jew.

To Canada's shame: Through government inaction and Blair?s bureaucratic anti-Semitism, Canada emerged from the war with one of the worst records of Jewish refugee resettlement in the world.[citation needed] Between 1933 and 1939, Canada accepted only 4,000 of the 800,000 Jews who had escaped from Nazi-controlled Europe.?
Canada currently has the 4th largest Jewish population.
There are several Dominican Jewish families in Jarabacoa - Levy. I'll ask them if they came with the Sosua group. There were Sephardic Jews that came to the DR long before that.

Shalom to all my Jewish-Dominican familia.

tambo'

Ezequiel said:

It doesn't matter the reasons why they were allowed in the DR . What does matter is that the Dominican Republic saved SEVEN HUNDRED lives from being gassed in a German Gas Chamber when the UK didn't allow not even one single Jew.

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Don't want to start an argument over this but according to the Association of Jewish Refugees in London.

"Most Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria found it very difficult to enter Britain. However, by September 1939 about 70,000 Jews had been granted refuge in this country. The main area of settlement was North-West London.

"Among those who obtained entry visas were many women who came as domestic servants. Almost 10,000 Jewish children were admitted without visas on Kindertransports. Several thousand men arrived on transit visas, which allowed them to re-emigrate to other countries."