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January 29, 2019

The Portuguese Diplomat Who Saved Thousands of Jews from the Nazis

Aristides de Sousa Mendes.

After World War II began, Portugal ordered its embassies and consulates not to issue visas to people “of undetermined, contested, or disputed nationality,” and especially not to stateless Jews. But Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese consul-general in the French city of Bordeaux, simply refused to follow these orders, as Richard Hurowitz writes:

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