I am curious. My grandfather, in his possessions which I have come to curate, there is a residence visa to DR, and in the rubric concerning occupation he is listed as "handwerker" which he was not. Nor was anything ever mentioned about the DR as an option when we were growing up. I know that he desperately tried to get into New Zealand where he had first cousins, but he was too late with that. He and his family went to Shanghai, where you did not need a visa, but also which, did not issue entry visas, which I understand, were a prerequisite (...😱) for leaving Nazi Germany. I am wondering if it was a coincidence with my family, or if many Shanghailanders were able to first escape the Nazi terror, due the the relative generosity with which Trujillo dispersed entry visas, which then could be used, in the first step, of escaping from Hitler's Germany. Is there a concrete connection between Sosúa and Shanghai, or is the information I am sharing simply a coincidence?
Ernst (Ernest) Feig
