Slyper
Visa Recipients
- SLYPER, Ezechiel P A
Age 59 | Visa #2043 - SLYPER, Herman Joseph P A
Age 19 - SLYPER, Joseph P A
Age 53 - SLYPER, Lea Rosa P A
Age 22 - SLYPER, Rachel née ASSCHER P A
Age 61 | Visa #2047 - SLYPER, Rosa née GELEERD P A
Age 45
About the Family
The numbered visas were issued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Bordeaux on June 18, 1940. Sousa Mendes requested a visa for Joseph SLYPER in a telegram to Salazar, the Portuguese head of state, but the latter denied it in a return telegram.
The Slyper family, Dutch citizens, crossed into Portugal. Ezechiel and Rachel SLYPER subsequently sailed on the Quanza from Lisbon to New York in August 1940.
- Photos
- Artifacts
Telegram from Sousa Mendes on behalf of SLYPER
Telegram from Salazar denying visas to this family and others - Courtesy of the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs archives, Lisbon
Page of Sousa Mendes Visa Registry Book listing this family and others - Courtesy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs archives, Lisbon