Treasure Trove remembers a Portuguese diplomat who was severely punished for saving Jews during the Holocaust
Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches (1885-1954) was the Portuguese consul stationed in Bordeaux, France who in May and June 1940 issued visas to thousands of desperate Jews seeking to escape to safety. Historian Yehuda Bauer said that Sousa Mendes’ actions were “perhaps the largest rescue action by a single individual during the Holocaust.” […]
Israel honours a Dutch couple who hid a Jewish boy during the Holocaust with a ceremony at the consulate in Toronto
About four years ago, Margaret DeJong opened an email attachment of a photo. To her amazement, it showed her grandparents, her father and her aunts and uncles in the Netherlands during the Second World War. The sender was a man in Israel she had never heard of. The immediate thought of the 63-year-old Sarnia, Ont. […]
