General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosúa
by
Allen Wells, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
Seven hundred and fifty Jewish refugees fled Nazi Germany and founded the agricultural settlement of Sosúa in the Dominican Republic, then ruled by one of Latin America’s most repressive dictators, General Rafael Trujillo. In Tropical Zion, Allen Wells, a distinguished historian and the son of...