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Re: Saved from the HolocaustFollowing Sousa Mendes

33 min

Available until 06/11/2028

08/11/2023

A group of travellers set off in the footsteps of a man to whom their families owe nothing less than their lives: Aristides de Sousa Mendes. In June 1940, when he was Consul General of Portugal in Bordeaux, he issued passports and transit visas to thousands of people, many of them European Jews, so that they could escape from the Nazis.

Country

Germany

Year

2023

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