domingo, maio 28, 2023

ASM visa dated 28-May - Moed family visited Casa do Passal in 2013

The MOED family received visas from Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Bordeaux on May 28, 1940.

They crossed into Portugal, where they lived in Porto. They sailed on the Nea Hellas from Lisbon to New York in September 1940.

Leon MOED received a visa from Aristides de Sousa Mendes on May 28, 1940.

He went on to become and architect in the US.

In 2013, his grandson Eric Moed created an award-winning installation in Casa do Passal, Work Towards Fairness, opened in the presence of a visitors organized by the Sousa Mendes Foundation-US in the Journey on the Road to Freedom, including other ASM Visa families, Sousa Mendes family members, local officials and the public. Casa do Passal was then in ruins, and restoration began the following year.

Moed 1940 http://sousamendesfoundation.org/family/moed

Making of video https://youtu.be/5Ngcm7AVHnI



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