Lechat
Visa Recipients
- LECHAT A
Age child - LECHAT A
Age child - LECHAT, Jacques A
Visa #1036 - LECHAT, Marguerite A
Visa #1035
About the Family
The LECHAT family received visas from Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Bordeaux on May 29, 1940. These visas were later explicitly denied by Salazar, the Portuguese head of state.
- Artifacts
Page of Sousa Mendes Visa Registry Book listing this family and others - Courtesy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs archives, Lisbon
Telegram from Salazar denying visas to this family and others - Courtesy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs archives, Lisbon