We are in touch with Centro de Arte Leon. They are very interested in helping our Virtual Museum. Soon you will hear more news from us in regards to this.
We received a photo a donation from Hedy Meyerstein of 12 photos taken by a Los Charamicos photographer. Soon they will be posted in our Museum
We received photo donations from the Labi – Codik and Blum – Codik families. Soon they will be posted in our Museum. Bruno and Irma Codik lived in Sosua for many years. His bread was a daily gourmet delight on our breakfast and dinner table. Thanks Margot and Hella for sharing your parents and family pictures.
George Schwarzbartl donated more than a hundred photos to the Sosua Virtual Museum. His parents Hans and Alice lived in Sosua several years. Then they moved to Santiago. Hans was a Mechanical Engineer. He built on top of a truck the first bus structure that was used to transport passengers from Santiago to Puerto Plata and Sosua. He also owned Gas Stations. Hans, Alice, Ralph and George spent with the Sosua community most of the High Holly Days as well as summer vacations.
Evening Service and end of fasting 7:05 pm
We are very thankful to Alma Kibel who recently made a donation to the museum. We welcome all of your donations very much. Please keep sending them. In the way we receive donations we will be able to make more things. We are in need of a Word press and CSS developer. If any of your children or grandchildren is and expert developer and wants to donate time to improve our website please let us know.
We received almost 50 pictures from Margot Labi and Hella Blum and about 10 from Lilly Gales who also promised to send us her family history!.. Please keep sending us your Sosua pictures. We will post them all.
Feel free to post comments on each page and to respond comments. We are waiting for somebody to respond a question posted by Michael in the following page. Michaels question is:
One thing about which I have always wondered is why more Jews did not take advantage of the refuge in Souza. Trujillo had agreed to take 100,000 refuges, yet only about 800 came. Why not more? Was there mistrust of Trujiio by the European Jews, did he renege on his promise, or did the Nazis refuse to allow more to leave? I have never seen anyone address this detail in the histories of the Holocaust. Trujiio’s offer was the only generous offer of aid to the the Jewish refugees, even if his motives might have been suspect. Why not more people? I hope someone can enlighten me on this.
A new webpage was added to our Sosua Virtual Museum: “Children of Sosua”. Please follow the link to view the page.
A new page will be soon live with photos of most children that were born and/or lived in Sosua. We lnow that several are missing so please provide us with names and/or pictures so that we can add them.
