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Sousa Mendes, Aristides de

(1885--1954), Portuguese diplomat in France who rescued thousands of Jews during World War II. In May 1940 Germany invaded France. Tens of thousands of refugees escaped to the south of France; their hope was to cross into Portugal via Spain, and from there leave Europe by ship. However, to enter Portugal, the refugees needed Portuguese visas. On May 10 the Portuguese government ordered its diplomats in France to stop issuing visas to refugees trying to escape the Nazis, especially Jews. At that point, Sousa Mendes was serving as Portugal's consul general in the southern French...

Mendes Aristides

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De Sousa Mendes, Aristides The Portuguese diplomat, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, was his country’s consul general in Bordeaux, France. The German occupation prompted tens of thousands of refugees, including thousands of Jews, to flee southward from the northern departéments in the hope of exiting France via the only remaining avenue of escape, the southern border into Spain and Portugal, and then sailing for America. The Portuguese dictator, António de Oliveira Salazar, permitted holders of visas for overseas to transit through Portugal, but closed the borders to refugees without visas, thus shutting...

Nationality : Portugal

Religion : Roman Catholic

Fate : Survived

Aristides De Sousa Mendes | The Righteous Among the Nations

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Following the occupation of France in the summer of 1940. foreign consulates were faced with large numbers of Jews. desperately trying to obtain visas in order to

From the testimony of Cesar Mendes, Sousa Mendes’ nephew

Righteous

I decided to join my uncle. Later on when I arrived in Bordeaux and approached the consulate of Portugal I noticed immediately that a large crowd of refugees was

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Polish passport issued by the Polish Consulate in Antwerp to Dora (Dobrisch) and Hillel Fraenkel, residents of Antwerp, 03 January 1935

Polish passport issued by the Polish Consulate in Antwerp to Dora (Dobrisch) and Hillel Fraenkel, residents of Antwerp, 03 January 1935 Hillel Fraenkel, born in Brody, Poland, 13 June 1885, and Dora (Dobrisch) Fraenkel, born in Brody, Poland, 12 June 1887; escape from Antwerp to Toulouse after the occupation of Belgium; receipt in Toulouse of a visa to Portugal which was stamped into their passport by Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese Consul, 25 December 1940 (p. 25). Notes from Meir Biederman who submitted the material: Hillel and Dvora Dora Fraenkel moved from Poland to Belgium after World...

File Number : 161

Type of Material : Passport

Language : Polish, French, Portuguese, German

Portugal Minister for Foreign Affairs, António Monteiro, at Yad Vashem

Dear friends: Today. on this historical occasion and at this unique venue (Yad Vashem. 'a memorial and a name'). let me briefly tell you a story that many of you

Holocaust Lexicon: S | The Holocaust Resource Center, Yad Vashem

The Lexicon entries below explore significant Holocaust-related events. topics. places and personalities and are based on Yad Vashem's Encyclopedia of the Holocaust.SA

Foreign Minister of Portugal Visits Yad Vashem

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal H.E. Prof. Augusto Santos Silva visited Yad Vashem on 24 November. The Foreign Minister toured the Holocaust History

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