526

Between 1934 and 1942, 526 Austrians immigrated to Colombia, which had been a safe haven for refugees since the Austrian civil war in the1930ies. The majority of those immigrants were Jews, who escaped after the «Anschluss», the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany, to South America. Most of them reached Colombia via the seaport Barranquilla. There and in the capital, Bogotá, they found a new homeland, established companies, and built up a living. The film presents personal destinies of those emigrants with archive material and contemporary interviews. 526 is dedicated to all those people, who had to leave their home country and to those many who were not able to escape.