Uruguay’s history as a place of refuge for European Jews fleeing antisemitism during the first half of the twentieth century and the rise of global fascism has been understudied. As survivors and children of survivors are now in their 70s, 80s, and 90s, there is an urgency to record their stories. Some of these migrants fled Europe as early as the 1920s, while others arrived in Uruguay shortly after the war, surviving alone or with family members. Working with a team of student and faculty researchers who are studying the experiences of Jewish migrants now residing in the Hogar Israelita, a former orphanage and home for the aged founded in 1937 and current nursing home in Montevideo, I have translated primary and secondary documents for my non-Spanish-speaking professor as well as conducted historical research. I am helping build the photos and recordings that we collected in January into a digital project. I’ve worked to situate these individual stories within a greater history to understand how political tensions of the time period and ideology of the government affected individuals and their families. US immigration policy, which significantly restricted Jews from entry beginning in 1924, directly affected Uruguayan policy, which remained largely open to Jews until 1937. As Jewish immigrants arrived, the presence of antisemitism increased through restrictive policies and pressure from the Catholic Church, despite the government’s denial of racism and antisemitism. Study of previously recorded testimonies recorded in Spanish of Jewish immigrants, both before and after fleeing Europe, reveals the creation of organizations aimed to ease the transition of immigrants as well as women’s associations and orphanages. The newly collected testimonies of the residents of Hogar, their families, and the staff, bring additional insight and nuance into our understanding of the Holocaust, the Jewish diaspora, identity, and migration.