A family’s personal history of fleeing the Holocaust and settling in the little town of Sosua in the Dominican Republic.

In 1941, Jewish settlers in Sosua, Dominican Republic, used metal roofing, paint and nails imported from the United States, as well as lumber from their own woods, to build infrastructure. The settlers, many from Germany and Austria, came to the Dominican Republic after the 1938 invitation of Rafael Trujillo, the country’s dictator. AP/AP