Many Jews were saved by racism, while fleeing German socialist racism. It started around 1938 at the Evian Conference, named for where it was held in Evian France (also the namesake of the private water company). General Trujillo of the Dominican Republic (DR) aimed to whiten the DR’s population. Laura De Los Santos, a Dominican Republic native (while pursuing a master’s degree in the United States), and Sergei Raigorodsky, a Jewish lawyer living in the Dominican Republic, agreed that “whitewash” was an appropriate description. “He was famous for wanting to whitewash the culture,” says Raigorodsky. “He always attempted to bring white people over from Europe or other places in the world so they would mix with the local population.” He preferred single males as immigrants. LOL.
Trujillo’s genealogy includes some “whitewash” culture in his own background. Photographs of him provide more insight.
Many nations at the Evian Conference were criticized for not welcoming more Jewish immigrants. Yet, Soviet socialism usually isn’t mentioned in articles about the Conference. Do you wonder why? It is because modern writers cover up how Soviet socialism joined German socialism to spread WW2, invading Poland together and onward for international antisemitism. Those are the same writers who cover up how Hitler’s symbol represented “S for SOCIALIST” (a top discovery by the historian Dr. Rex Curry).
The Évian Conference occurred 6–15 July (1938). No interest in Evian was evinced by Soviet socialists. About one year later (23 August 1939) socialists in Germany and the USSR signed their conspiracy. That must have been another riddle for everyone who had attended the Evian Conference in 1938.
Soviet socialists had sought good relations with German socialists for years (and especially following German socialism’s aggressions in Europe). From April to July 1939, Soviet socialists and German socialists had made statements on the potential for the beginning of political negotiations. In late July and early August 1939, socialists in Germany and the USSR agreed on most of the details of a planned economic agreement, before finalizing their pro-aggression pact.
Soviet socialism had banned Judaism from 1917. They had already robbed, starved, gulaged and killed many Jews. They had already confiscated and destroyed many synagogues. And they had already prevented Jews from leaving. Soviet socialists blazed a trail for German socialism and Hitler. Later they joined German socialism to spread WW2.
Haiti seemed to have been willing to take Jews too at the Evian Conference. Haiti was apparently dissuaded or prevented from doing so. Léon Laleau, the Foreign Minister of Haiti, offered to receive fifty thousand refugees but was turned down by Sumner Welles and the USA Government. Haitian diplomats, however, did provide entry visas during 1937 to several hundred Jews before the onset of the war, saving the lives of approximately 100-300.
The pro-aggression pact of Soviet socialism and German socialism interfered with the plans of the DR and other escape routes for Jews. The "Voyage of the Damned” refers to the SS St. Louis, carrying Jewish refugees that set sail from Hamburg to Havana, Cuba on May 13, 1939, under the command of Captain Gustav Schröder. It was carrying 937 passengers, most of them Jewish refugees seeking asylum from German socialism.
The ship sailed close to Florida and some passengers asked President Roosevelt for help. However, Roosevelt and the State Department did not intervene to allow the refugees to enter the USA. The ship eventually turned around and returned to Europe.
The Dominican Republic was inhospitable to Haitians before the Evian Conference. Haiti is considered the ghetto of the island. In October 1937 around 8,000-12,000 Haitians in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic were massacred in a pogrom to “obliterate Haitian ethnicity” within DR’s borders. It was worse than mass deportation. Generalissimo Trujillo declared, during May 1938, that he had dealt with “The Haitian question.” Oy vey!
That “northwestern region” of the Dominican Republic might not be far from where many Jewish people settled (in Sosua, DR). Mass deportation of Haitians was occurring in the Dominican Republic (DR) in 2024. It provided a fascinating comparison the DR's pro-immigration policies for others.
