El Caribe newspaper highlights the recent reopening of the renovated Jewish Museum in Sos?a, Puerto Plata province. Just next door to the Jewish Synagogue and near to the Casa Marina Beach hotel, the museum recounts the story of the group of about 1,000 Jewish settlers who arrived there in 1939, having accepted an offer of free land from of Dictator Trujillo. The museum has been rehabilitated thanks to contributions from original settler families, including the Strauss family of the Productos Sos?a dairy farm, and the Hess family among others, who have maintained the museum that gives their history. Eliahu Lopez, the ambassador of Israel, and Eva A. Kendeffy, the ambassador of Germany, both attended the reopening ceremony of the Puerto Plata attraction. For more on the story of the Jewish settlers in Sosua, see
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource