In this JHE “Long(er) Read” we’re taking you somewhat off geographical topic…..to Latin America.
JHE Contributor Michele Migliori recently spent a month in Ecuador, where he took time to visit and report on the Andean country’s Jewish cemeteries, which bear stone witness to the history and fairly recent European origins of the Jewish community.
Between 1933 and 1950 Ecuador granted asylum to as many as 4,000 European Jews who were first escaping from Nazi and Fascist Europe, and then from the horrors of the Holocaust and its aftermath.
In Ecuador, Michele writes, and as we noted about the Americas in general in a Photo Essay post in October 2019, epitaphs and gravestones tell dramatic stories of emigration.