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An unknown country : the Jewish exiles of Ecuador / a film by Eva Zelig.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Latin America--History.
- Jews.
- Jewish refugees--Ecuador--History--20th century.
- Jewish refugees.
- Jews--Persecutions.
- Ecuador.
- Latin America.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (94 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Privately Published, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English and Spanish, with English subtitles.
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- An Unknown Country tells the story of European Jews who escaped Nazi persecution to find refuge in an unlikely destination: Ecuador, a South American country barely known at the time. The film follows the exiles' perilous escape and difficult adjustment as they remade their lives in what was for them an exotic, unfamiliar land.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed April 03, 2017).
- OCLC:
- 986400113
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