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Lilly Duijm poses in front of the boxes of documents from the archive in Paramaribo, Suriname, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Oscar Keur)

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 April, volunteers were scanning documents from the Neveh Shalom Synagogue in an effort to preserve the history of the thousands of Jews who have called the city home since the 1700s.
 
Ingrid Bouterse-Waldring, wife of Suriname's former President Desi Bouterse is surrounded by supporters as she speaks to the press outside her home in Paramaribo, Suriname, Friday, Jan. 12, 2024. The former dictator, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Dec. 2023 for the killings of 15 political opponents, has vanished after not turning himself in to authorities on Friday as planned. His wife told reporters that she did not know where he was and firmly stated, “He's not going to jail!" (AP Photo/Anthony Moeridjan)

Former Suriname dictator vanishes after being sentenced in killings of 15 political opponents

 
FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2010 file photo, Suriname's President Desi Bouterse attends a military parade after his swearing-in ceremony in Paramaribo, Suriname. Suriname’s former dictator will face a final verdict in Dec 2024 in the years-long judicial process over the 1982 killings of 15 political opponents that deeply scarred the South American country. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)

Suriname’s ex-dictator faces final verdict in 1982 killings of political opponents. Some fear unrest