When Jewish people were forced out of other places in the Americas, they often fled to Suriname. On Christmas Eve in 1942, more than 100 Dutch Jewish refugees, fleeing the horrors of the Holocaust ...

Eggar, whose grandfather was a slave, was born in 1900 in Suriname, then a Dutch South American colony. He moved to the Netherlands for his studies. There, he met a Jewish woman, Engelina Jas.

Dutch-led Suriname team digitizes 100,000 documents to preserve Jewish history in the Caribbean As firefighters in Suriname battled to save buildings in the historic city center of Paramaribo in ...