This account of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese consul to France in the early years of World War II, tells his story of courage. When visas to refugees to Portugal were denied, on the basis of race and religion, Mendes personally signed many thousands of visas that spared recipients, thousands of them Jews, a terrible fate in the Nazi death camps. of photos.
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This account of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese consul to France in the early years of World War II, tells his story of courage. When visas to refugees to Portugal were denied, on the basis of race and religion, Mendes personally signed many thousands of visas that spared recipients, thousands of them Jews, a terrible fate in the Nazi death camps. of photos.
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