Mendels

Visa Recipients

  • MENDELS, Annye A
    Age 14
  • MENDELS, Lodewyk A
    Visa #1242
  • MENDELS, Sarah Stella née VAN KLEEF A
    Age 37 | Visa #1240

About the Family

The MENDELS family received visas from Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Bordeaux on June 6, 1940 after having been explicitly denied in two separate telegrams by Salazar, the Portuguese head of state.

They crossed into Portugal and emigrated to Curaçao.

Artifacts
  • Artifacts
Bordeus_47_1940_03

Telegram from Salazar denying visas to this family and others - Courtesy of the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs archives, Lisbon

Bordeus_32_1940

Telegram from Salazar denying visas to this family and others - Courtesy of the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs archives, Lisbon

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Page of Sousa Mendes Visa Registry Book listing this family and others - Courtesy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs archives, Lisbon