TIL That the Dominican Republic, led by dictator Rafael Trujillo, offered to accept between 50,000 and 100,000 Jewish refugees in 1938. Only 645 made it and upon arrival, every new Jewish settler was given 80 acres of land, 10 cows, a mule and a horse.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/sosua.html



Submitted March 30, 2015 at 11:42PM by Donkey_-_Dong http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/30ty75/til_that_the_dominican_republic_led_by_dictator/