Despite a 1938 ruling that all Jews not involved in industry or agriculture must leave within 30 days as per directions of the president of Ecuador, the country did become a haven for fleeing Jewish people to escape Nazi persecution.
We have an excellent documentary here how Jews struggled but persevered in Ecuador adjusting to an agricultural existence and surviving malaria and other illnesses in their attempts to leave the countryside and get to Quito, Ecauador's capital, where conditions were better.
We find the familiar themes of accommodation and assimilation into a totally different society, but yet with the trials and tribulations, people were willing to put up with it as it meant their very survival. Liberation, of course, is the key word here.
Very well told by survivors and people who followed them.
We have an excellent documentary here how Jews struggled but persevered in Ecuador adjusting to an agricultural existence and surviving malaria and other illnesses in their attempts to leave the countryside and get to Quito, Ecauador's capital, where conditions were better.
We find the familiar themes of accommodation and assimilation into a totally different society, but yet with the trials and tribulations, people were willing to put up with it as it meant their very survival. Liberation, of course, is the key word here.
Very well told by survivors and people who followed them.