Jewish Attractions
Jewish Cemetery in Sosua
In 1940, with World War II already underway, the Dominican government signed an agreement with the Dominican Republic Settlement Association (Dorsa) to carry out a program of the American Jewish Committee for Joint Distribution with the obj...
Luis Hess School - Ex Cristobal Colon School (old Jewish school)
ESCUELA CRISTOBAL COLON (ECC) The first school started in a barrack supported by DORSA. Escuela Cristóbal Colón (ECC) started its operations In November 1940. Kindergarten and elementary school for the settlers children was offered...
DORSA - old offices in Sosua
In March 1938, the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt, convened a conference of 32 nations in Evian-les-Bains, France, to discuss the resettlement of German and Austrian Jewish refugees in other lands. At the time, the Nazi ...