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SUMMARY:Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosúa\, 1940–1945
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Dr. Marion Kaplan\, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History Emerita\, New York University \n\n\n\nAs National Hispanic Heritage Month begins\, join us for the remarkable story of one of the Holocaust’s least-known rescue efforts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring the Second World War\, the Dominican Republic became the only country in the Americas to officially welcome large numbers of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution. Thousands applied for refuge\, and several hundred ultimately rebuilt their lives in the small agricultural community of Sosúa on the island’s northern coast. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow did this extraordinary rescue effort come about? Who were the refugees who made the journey? And how did they adapt from life in Europe’s cities to farming in the Caribbean with the support of their Dominican neighbors? \n\n\n\nDrawing on years of archival research\, acclaimed historian Marion Kaplan explores this unique chapter of Holocaust history and the life-saving connections between Jewish refugees and the Dominican Republic. \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\n\n\nMarion Kaplan is Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History Emerita at New York University and one of the world’s leading historians of German Jewry and the Holocaust. She is the award-winning author of numerous books\, including Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosúa\, 1940–1945 and Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany. Her scholarship has transformed our understanding of Jewish life before\, during\, and after the Holocaust. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFree and open to the public.
URL:https://bornsteinholocaustcenter.org/event/dominican-haven-the-jewish-refugee-settlement-in-sosua-1940-1945/
LOCATION:Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center\, 401 Elmgrove Ave\, Providence\, Rhode Island\, 02906\, United States
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