Kristallnacht

The Dominican Republic took in Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany in exchange for a promise to develop the land. Franz Blumenstein rides a donkey in Sosúa, Dominican Republic, 1940.

The Dominican Republic took in Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler while 31 nations looked away

November 8, 2018Conflict & Justice

A New Hampshire man stumbled on an overlooked moment of history: The forgotten Evian conference where only one of 32 countries — the Dominican Republic — agreed to help settle German Jewish refugees. The doomed Evian Conference is viewed as a beginning act of the Holocaust.

Stolpersteins or stumblestones placed in Mainz, Germany on October 15th, 2015 to honor Juliane and Simon Gaertner. Juliane was deported to Theresienstadt where she died in 1942.

Remembering an 80-year-old Jewish woman who marched into the Gestapo to demand the release of her son

October 15, 2015Culture