Passages to Safety: Untold Stories of Jewish Refugees in Latin America
Welker Room, James Laughlin Music Hall 5798 Woodland Rd, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesWhile Latin America only permitted about 84,000 Jewish refugees during the Holocaust, pockets of hope emerged. Tens of thousands of Spanish and Jewish refugees escaped Nazi-occupied Europe with the help of diplomats like Gilberto Bosques Saldívar of México. Jews were also offered crucial passage away from Nazi persecution by governments in Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, […]