Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua, 1940–1945. By Marion A. Kaplan. New York: Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust Press. 2008. Pp. xii+255. Paper $19.95. ISBN 978-0-9716859-3-2.

摘要

Marion Kaplan’s beautifully written book, Dominican Haven, investigates therncomplex and often contradictory story of the rescue of central European Jewsrnby the dictator of the Dominican Republic, Rafael Trujillo. Trujillo, a brutalrnracist in his own right, made an offer to take in 100,000 persecuted Jews inrn1935 and again in 1938. Kaplan traces the background of Trujillo’s offer, thernnegotiations with Americans, and the twists and turns that led almost 500rnJewish settlers out of urban, industrialized Europe to the relative safety of anrnagrarian, fairly isolated region of the Dominican Republic called Sosua.