Thoreau

Visa Recipients

  • THOREAU A
    Visa #1964
  • THOREAU A
    Visa #1965
  • THOREAU, Père Edouard A
    Age 49 | Visa #1963

About the Family

These visas were issued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Bordeaux on June 17, 1940.

Edouard THOREAU, a Catholic priest, crossed into Portugal. He sailed from Lisbon to New York on the ship Nea Hellas in August 1940. He returned to Portugal and sailed again from Lisbon to New York on the vessel Nyassa in August 1941.

  • Artifact
1951-86

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