This Traveltalk entry visits a Djuka tribal village in Dutch Guiana which would later be called Suriname The Djuka are descendants of west Africans who escaped from ships that were taking them to ...

Suriname is a country located ... Brazil to the south, and French Guiana to the east. Its capital, Paramaribo, boasts a strong Dutch colonial legacy and a vibrant cultural mix.

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