Diplomat who saved lives recognized

Diplomat who saved Jews gains recognition

Originally published: November 29, 2012 2:07 PM
Updated: November 29, 2012 4:59 PM
By LISA SCHIFFMAN  Special to Newsday

Photo credit: Heather Walsh | Olivia Mattis of Greenlawn is a co-founder of the Sousa Mendes foundation. (Nov. 26, 2012)

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Diplomat who saved Jews gains recognition

As a girl growing up in Scarsdale, Olivia Mattis heard her grandmother speak often and with passion about how a Portuguese diplomat saved their family after Hitler invaded Belgium in 1940.

Mattis' father, Daniel, was 7 years old when he and his parents, Joseph and Lucie Matuzewitz, and his 17-year-old sister, Blanche, narrowly escaped the bombing of Brussels as German troops advanced. Daniel's...

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