sentences:  Jewish immigration from Eastern and Central Europe increased after 1934 but, by then, Venezuela had imposed specific restrictions on Jewish immigration, which remained in effect until after the 1950s.In 1939 the steamboats "Koenigstein" and "Caribia" left Nazi Germany and docked in Venezuela.One Jewish refugee commented in the Venezuelan newspaper, "La Esfera", "Imagine our joy at being free and far from a land in which everything threatened us with death.