About the Family

The ROTHSCHILD family received visas from Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Bordeaux on June 16 and 17, 1940.

Baron Robert de ROTHSCHILD and his wife Baroness Nelly Gabrielle de ROTHSCHILD boarded a refugee vessel in Bordeaux and crossed the English Channel to the United Kingdom in June of 1940. From there they traveled to the United States, arriving in August of 1940.

Baron Maurice de ROTHSCHILD, a former French Senator, subsequently crossed into Portugal arriving in Lisbon on June 26, 1940 and sailing from Lisbon to Scotland in July 1940.

Baron Edouard de ROTHSCHILD, his wife Baroness Germaine de ROTHSCHILD and their daughter Bethsabée de ROTHSCHILD flew from Lisbon to New York on the Yankee Clipper on July 4, 1940.

Baron Eugène de ROTHSCHILD followed on the Yankee Clipper on August 3, 1940. He was joined there by his wife Baroness Katherine de ROTHSCHILD who flew on the Yankee Clipper on October 4, 1940.

Nadine THIERRY was the daughter of Henri de ROTHSCHILD and the wife of the French Ambassador to Romania, Adrien THIERRY. She crossed into Switzerland in December 1943.

Adelaide ZAMOYSKA, the stepdaughter of Maurice de ROTHSCHILD, remained in Portugal, where she died in 1946.