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Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Aristides de Sousa Mendes
October 23, 2021, 11:41 am
Portuguese diplomat who saved thousands during the Shoah gets posthumous honour
Aristides de Sousa Mendes, who helped thousands of Jews escape the Nazis, was honoured in a ceremony on Tuesday
By JTA
Aristides de Sousa Mendes
July 11, 2020, 3:19 pm
Shoah hero who saved Jews honoured in Lisbon
Aristides de Sousa Mendes, who disobeyed the orders of Portugal’s dictatorship to issue Jews with visas, was declared 'a heroic historical figure'
By Jewish News Reporter
Screen capture from video of Portuguese politician Abel Matos Santos. (YouTube via Times of Israel)
February 4, 2020, 3:01 pm
Portuguese politician sorry for calling famous rescuer of Jews a ‘loan shark’
Newly-elected vice president of right-wing CDS People's Party, Abel Matos Santos, apologises for remarks after Lisbon's Jewish community protested
By JTA
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