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terça-feira, maio 12, 2015

Sousa Mendes Foundation - trabalho reconhecido

A publicação  Avotaynu on-line, dedicada à genealogia judaica,  republicou um artigo recente da revista PRISM, sobre o trabalho de investigação da Sousa Mendes Foundation a encontrar as famílias que receberam vistos de Aristides de Sousa Mendes para entrar em Portugal em 1940.  São apresentados os perfis de três famílias - Heymann, Rozenfeld, e Segall / Weinstein , bem como se explica o processo envolvido em encontrá-las.
Este trabalho tem sido feito por uma equipa de investigadores voluntários, em parte com um apoio da Claims Conference.
Muitos parabéns por este excelente trabalho.

Por favor, divulguem esta notícia e ajudem a encontrar mais famílias beneficiárias dos vistos de Aristides!

VER http://www.avotaynuonline.com/2015/05/sousa-mendess-list-search-for-survivors/

ou  a pagina da SMF no Facebook 




segunda-feira, maio 11, 2015

I am alive thanks to Aristides de Sousa Mendes


I AM ALIVE thanks to Aristides de Sousa Mendes [ENGLISH SUBTITLES] - FULL HD from Lula Gigante on Vimeo.
"I am Alive thanks to Aristides de Sousa Mendes" is a short documentary film directed by Priscilla Fontoura that tells the story of one of the greatest forgotten heroes of the twentieth century. As the Portuguese Consul-General in Bordeaux, France, during World War II, Sousa Mendes was responsible for saving the lives of thousands of people from the Holocaust. He did this by issuing visas to Portugal, against the direct orders of the Portuguese dictator, António de Oliveira Salazar. Among the visa recipients was Salvador Dali, whose post-war paintings exist thanks to Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
The film establishes a parallel between the Sousa Mendes home in the Portuguese countryside - an edifice that today stands in ruins - and the forced oblivion of his legacy. Punished by the Portuguese government, he never received the recognition he deserved. The starting point of the documentary is a visit to the house, called Casa do Passal, where the Consul was born. There we meet Sousa Mendes visa recipients and their descendants who have come to render homage. The occasion is the opening of an installation, "Work Towards Fairness," created by Eric Moed, a New York architect whose grandfather received a visa from Aristides. Moed's installation includes photographs of the visa recipients and is meant as a plea for the house to be rebuilt.
With their testimonials and family stories, the visa recipient family members help to rebuild the memory of Aristides de Sousa Mendes and restore his good name. This film underlines the necessity of rebuilding the only physical structure in Portugal associated with Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Casa do Passal, so that the name of one of the greatest heroes in the Western World might be restored to its rightful place in history.
Executive producer VIBIS
Associate producers BRITT MICHAELIAN, ELIZABETH BROWN, HARRY OESTERREICHER, ISABEL CANHOLA, MARK ROBERT, YAKOV DAMKANI AND ELISHEVA DAMKANI
A documentary financed by crowdfunding I AM ALIVE THANKS TO ARISTIDES DE SOUSA MENDES with ANTÓNIO DE MONCADA DE SOUSA MENDES, ERIC MOED, HARRY OESTERREICHER and YARA NAGEL video editing PRISCILLA FONTOURA executive producer VIBIS associate producers BRITT MICHAELIAN, ELIZABETH BROWN, HARRY OESTERREICHER, ISABEL CANHOLA, MARK ROBERT, YAKOV DAMKANI AND ELISHEVA DAMKANI, directed by PRISCILLA FONTOURA

terça-feira, março 31, 2015

Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Washington, DC, 19-April

Sousa Mendes no Jardins dos Justos, Washington, DC 
Garden of the Righteous 2015
Honoring the Memory of
Aristides de Sousa Mendes from Portugal
Featuring Live Musical Oratorio Presentation
with Cantor Brown
Sunday, April 19 @ 10am

For this year's annual Garden of the Righteous program, Adas Israel is proud to honor 
Mr. Aristides de Sousa Mendes. Mendes was the Portuguese Consul-General in Bordeaux, France, when the Germans invaded in 1940. When Sousa Mendes received a delegation of refugees at the consulate, Mendes decided to disobey his government’s explicit instruction and promised transit visas to everyone in need. In June 1940, Mendes issued some 30,000 visas, including about 10,000 to Jews. This heroic feat was characterized by renowned Israeli Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer as “perhaps the largest rescue action by a single individual during the Holocaust.”

The Adas Israel Garden of the Righteous is a beautiful reminder of numerous acts of decency and daring performed by many non-Jews in the midst of one of the most tragic moments in human history.  The entire community is cordially invited to join us for this moving event. 

The Sousa Mendes Foundation is participating actively in this important event, as well as various descendents of Aristides de Sousa Mendes and of the refugees he saved. 


A new musical composition or Oratorio by Neely Bruce will be premiered. 

domingo, fevereiro 02, 2014

Ajude a iluminar os campos de refugiados

     “Uma Vida Melhor para os Refugiados”

Tenda do ACNUR,  nos jardins da Gulbenkian,  chama atenção aos Alertar para a atual problemática dos refugiados e pretende apoiar o ACNUR (Alto Comissariado das Nações Unidas para Refugiados) na resposta a um dos maiores problemas dos campos de refugiados - a falta de iluminação 

Esta é uma  iniciativa conjunta entre a Ikea Foundation, o ACNUR e a Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Até 12 de fevereiro, uma tenda original do ACNUR  demonstra algumas das dificuldades com que os 10,5 milhões de refugiados em todo o mundo (cerca de metade são crianças) se debatem diariamente.

Com o nome “Uma Vida Melhor Para os Refugiados”, a iniciativa irá 
decorrer entre 3 de fevereiro e 29 de março.  Durante esse período, por cada lâmpada LED vendida, a IKEA Foundation doa 1€ ao ACNUR para iluminar campos de refugiados, tornando-os num lugar mais humano e seguro para as muitas famílias que neles 
Fonte:  vivem.
Fonte:  http://www.gulbenkian.pt/Institucional/pt/CanalFCG/Noticias/Noticia?a=4747

domingo, outubro 20, 2013

Como a Dinamarca salvou a sua população judia durante a II Guerra



How Denmark Saved Its Jews from the Nazis 

Denmark was the only European country to save almost all of its Jewish residents from the Holocaust. After being tipped off about imminent roundups by prominent Nazis, resisters evacuated the country's 7,000 Jews to Sweden by boat. A new book examines this historical anomaly.

Source:  http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/book-examines-how-jews-of-denmark-were-saved-from-the-holocaust-a-928116.html

quinta-feira, abril 11, 2013

Sefarditas podem recuperar cidadania portuguesa



Há muitos judeus sefarditas que aspiram a recuperar a nacionalidade portuguesa, de que se encontram privados mercê da expulsão e/ou exílio forçado dos seus antepassados.

O dia 19-Abril-1506 é o aniversário do progrom de Lisboa que antecedeu a expulsão de judeus.   Isto foi no tempo em que os judeus eram quase todos letrados, e que represantavam bem mais de metade dos letrados do reino.  
Ver http://ruadajudiaria.com/?p=657


Novo livro: O Massacre dos Judeus

quarta-feira, abril 10, 2013

Historiadora ajuda órfãos do Holocausto a encontrar identidade


Milhares de sobreviventes do Holocausto que, durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), eram crianças judias que sobreviveram escondidas em casas polonesas ou em conventos tornaram-se adultos que até hoje não conhecem sua verdadeira identidade.
De acordo com a historiadora israelense Lea Balint, uma das consequências dolorosas do extermínio em massa dos judeus pelo regime nazista é o problema das "crianças sem identidade".


Ver artigo completo em ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/noticias/2013/04/130407_dia_holocausto_pai_gf.shtml?ocid=socialflow_facebook_brasil

sexta-feira, outubro 05, 2012

Projecto do Passal merece prémio a jovem arquitecto

A Benetton, através da sua Fundação Unhate, lançou a nova edição do seu concurso de ideias com o tema 'Unemployee of the Year'. Este ano, um dos candidatos é o arquitecto americano Eric Moed que apresenta uma proposta dedicada a Casa do Passal. O Eric descende de receptores de vistos de Sousa Mendes e tem dedicado o seu trabalho de investigação ao Consul . 

Para votar neste projecto, favor visitar  
http://unhate.benetton.com/unemployee-of-the-year/community/3398-eric/project/


WTF : WORK TOWARDS FAIRNESS
WORK
Work is a dirty word. It can blind people from what is truly important. Paychecks serve as blinders.
Unemployment can lead to periods of deep introspection which in turn can lead to discovery. I have had one such discovery that has changed the course of my life. A discovery which is truly in line with this contest.

Please help me in making it a reality through Work Toward Fairness.

TOWARDS FAIRNESS:
What is the Casa do Passal?
As time passes it deteriorates. It is a decrepit home, with the potential to tell the incredible story of its former inhabitant through the proper project.

The inhabitant: Mr. Sousa Mendes, a Portugese diplomat who issued over 30,000 visas, against government orders. These visas saved thousands of desperate refugees by providing an escape from the terrors of World War II. Unfortunately Aristides de Sousa Mendes did not live to see his actions recognized, he was harshly punished and his home was taken away from him. In fact, he died in 1954, penniless, his remaining relatives not even able to afford a proper suit for his burial. Surely Aristides was the Employee of the Month worldwide in 1939, now as an Unemployee I hope to begin to repay this hero for saving my family and countless others.

What can we do to give this story a proper, justified ending?
Repair the Casa do Passal! With an awesome design comes awesome publicity. Through creating a temporary art pavillon instillation at the site of the home I hope to garnish worldwide support for the story to be rectified through the repair of the home and its transformation into a modern museum. Repairing the now broken ending by turning it on its head, we can now provide a space for his family to celebrate, not mourn.

MY CONNECTION
My Grandfather and Great-Grandfather, both architects, were saved from almost certain death in WWII Europe, through the heroic and selfless acts of Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
I have dedicated this proposal to the memory of the man who saved them, in hopes of jump-starting and seeing to it that Dr. Mendes' story is spread, the Casa Do Passal is restored as a museum, and Aristides' legacy is celebrated and that his families’ honor is restored once and for all. The Sousa Mendes family has suffered for generations as the result of a great deed. 30,000 visas signed against government orders was the epitome of using ones job for good. It is time that this deed gets its due. Finally, UNhate is an opportunity to push back against many miscarriages of justice.

The restoration and design of the Casa do Passal goes well beyond the scope of a simple architectural proposal. It must result in a place that embues dignity, fosters education and ultimately echoes the deeds of Aristides de Sousa Mendes in perpetuity. I hope you can join me in the UNhate community to promote the values of someone who was blinded by love.

"I could not have acted otherwise, and I therefore accept all that has befallen me with love."
-Aristides de Sousa Mendes





PROJECT FIELD 
ART
WHERE IS IT DEVELOPED?
CABANAS DE VIRIATO, PORTUGAL


segunda-feira, setembro 24, 2012

Research into Visa recipients contines


Podem seguir o progresso do trabalho desenvolvido pela Sousa Mendes Foundation abaixo. Trata-se de um trabalho de pesquisa sobre os beneficiários dos vistos e, quando possivél, de localização de suas familias.

You can follow the progress of the Sousa Mendes Foundation below. The Sousa Mendes Foundation is seeking to identify and locate Holocaust refugees who were given life-saving visas by Aristides de Sousa Mendes in the Spring of 1940. 

http://sousamendesfoundation.org/visa-recipients/
List of Known Sousa Mendes Visa Recipients » Sousa Mendes Foundation
sousamendesfoundation.org

List of Known Sousa Mendes Visa RecipientsThis list of Sousa Mendes visa recipients was assembled by...

Source:  http//sousamendefoundatio.org/

terça-feira, fevereiro 07, 2012

Search for Sousa Mendes survivors

Search for Sousa Mendes survivors, visa receipients and their descendents looks to the lists of the secret police PVDE, later PIDE



A procura de refugiados que receberam visas de Sousa Mendes passa pelas listas da policia secreta portuguesa, a PVDE/PIDE que mantinha um controlo apertado.

terça-feira, janeiro 10, 2012

Search launched for families who escaped through Portugal

(Enslish version below)

SEATTLE, 9 de janeiro de 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A Fundação Sousa Mendes quer identificar e localizar refugiados do Holocausto, aos quais foram concedidos vistos por Aristides de Sousa Mendes na primavera de 1940. Sousa Mendes, então cônsul de Portugal em Bordeaux, França, salvou cerca de 30.000 pessoas do Holocausto, segundo as estimativas. Ele o fez ao conceder aos refugiados vistos para entrar em Portugal, em transgressão a um documento emitido pelo governo português a seus consulados, a "Circular 14", que proibia terminantemente essa ajuda aos judeus. Por esse motivo, ele foi julgado pela ditadura de Salazar e severamente punido.

Aristides de Sousa Mendes morreu em 1954 na pobreza, oficialmente desacreditado e quase apagado da história. Em 1966, ele recebeu, postumamente, o título de "Justo Entre as Nações", concedido pela autoridade israelense do Holocausto, Yad Vashem. No final dos anos 80, o governo português pediu formalmente desculpas à família de Sousa Mendes e o promoveu, postumamente, ao posto de embaixador.

A Fundação Sousa Mendes, estabelecida em 2010 através de uma parceria formada entre a família do herói e as famílias dos judeus salvos por ele, começou uma busca sem precedentes pelos refugiados. Pessoas e famílias inteiras se deslocaram de todas as partes da Europa, receberam vistos portugueses no sul da França (Bordeaux, Bayonne, Hendaye ou Toulouse), em abril, maio e junho de 1940, e viajaram, em seguida, através da Espanha e de Portugal, de onde estavam espalhados, para os Estados Unidos, Canadá, Brasil, Reino Unido e outros países, de 1940 a 1942.

"A maioria das pessoas que foram salvas por Sousa Mendes não sabem que foram salvas por alguém", declarou o Dr.Sylvain Bromberger, professor emérito do Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts (MITMassachusetts Institute of Technology) – um dos que tiveram a sorte de serem ajudados. Bromberger é membro do conselho da fundação e está ajudando nesse esforço. A pesquisa é encabeçada por outra integrante do conselho, a Dr. Olivia Mattis, em parceria com uma pesquisadora voluntária, a Srta. Marie J. Gomes.

Entre os recipientes dos vistos concedidos por Sousa Mendes, estavam alguns famosos, como Salvador Dali, Hans e Margret Rey (autores de Curious George), a família Habsburg, a família Rothschild e o cineasta King Vidor, entre outros. Mas a maioria dos recipientes eram de famílias comuns, fugindo dos horrores da perseguição nazista.

Para mais informações sobre como compartilhar qualquer conhecimento sobre recipientes de vistos ou suas famílias, por favor contate info@sousamendesfoundation.org ou visite o website da fundação em: www.sousamendesfoundation.org

Lista de salvamento

A lista que se segue inclui apenas alguns dos indivíduos que foram salvos diretamente ou cujas famílias foram salvas, devido à ação de Aristides de Sousa Mendes:

Hamilton Fish Armstrong, fundador e editor da revista Foreign Affairs;
Thomas Bennigson, advogado – sua mãe, Edith Landsberg, foi salva;
Daniel Branton, professor de biologia celular da Universidade de Harvard;
Dr. Sylvain Bromberger, professor emérito de filosofia e linguística do MIT;
Salvador Dali;
Ilja Dijour, representante da Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society;
Richard de Grab, fotógrafo;
Arquiduque Otto von Habsburg e a família Habsburg;
Robbert Hartog, líder empresarial canadense e filantropo;
Dr. Lissy Jarvik, professora emérita de medicina da UCLA;
Robert Lebel, crítico de arte;
Kizette de Lempicka, filha da artista Tamara de Lempicka;
Alexander Liberman, escultor, pintor e diretor de arte da revista Vogue;
Dr. Daniel Mattis, professor de física da Universidade de Utah;
Leon Moed, arquiteto;
Alfred Montesinos, ex-presidente da Cartier;
Jonah Peretti, guru da internet e cofundador do The Huffington Post, cuja avó Adina Cherkin foi salva;
Hans e Margret Rey, autores da série Curious George;
Barão Maurice de Rothschild e a família Rothschild;
Boris Smolar, correspondente-chefe na Europa da Jewish Telegraphic Agency;
Tereska Torres, escritora feminista e uma das primeiras mulheres a lutar por Charles de Gaulle;
Julian Tuwim, poeta polonês e sobrinho do pianista Arthur Rubinstein
King Vidor, diretor de cinema de Hollywood;
Wilhelm Weinberg, colecionador de arte e filantropo;
Dr. Charles Weissmann, pesquisador biomédico do Scripps Research Institute.

FONTE The Sousa Mendes Foundation

FONTE The Sousa Mendes Foundation

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lancada-a-busca-por-familias-que-escaparam-do-holocausto-atraves-de-portugal-136980768.html


Search Is Launched For Families Who Escaped The Holocaust Through Portugal

SEATTLE, Jan. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sousa Mendes Foundation US is seeking to identify and locate Holocaust refugees who were given life-saving visas by Aristides de Sousa Mendes in the Spring of 1940. Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, rescued an estimated 30,000 people from the Holocaust. He did so by giving refugees visas to Portugal, in contravention of a document called "Circular 14" issued by the Portuguese government to its consular corps that contained strict orders not to do so. As a result, he was put on trial by the Salazar dictatorship and harshly punished.

Aristides de Sousa Mendes died in 1954 in poverty and official disgrace, and almost erased from history. In 1966 he was posthumously declared a "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust authority. In the late 1980's the Portuguese government formally apologized to the Sousa Mendes family and elevated him posthumously to the rank of Ambassador.
The Sousa Mendes Foundation, established in 2010 as a partnership between the hero's family and the families of those rescued by him, has begun an unprecedented search for the rescuees. These individuals and families came from all parts of Europe, received Portuguese visas in the south of France (Bordeaux, Bayonne, Hendaye or Toulouse) in April, May or June of 1940, and subsequently traveled through Spain to Portugal, from where they scattered to the United States, Canada, Brazil, the U.K., and elsewhere between 1940 and 1942.

"Most people who were saved by Sousa Mendes don't know that they were saved by anyone," declared Dr. Sylvain Bromberger, professor emeritus at MIT and himself one of the lucky ones. Bromberger serves on the Board of the foundation and is helping in this effort. The research is being spearheaded by another Board member, Dr. Olivia Mattis, in partnership with a volunteer researcher, Ms. Marie J. Gomes.
Famous Sousa Mendes visa recipients include Salvador Dali, Hans and Margret Rey (authors of Curious George), the Habsburg family, the Rothschild family, and the filmmaker King Vidor, among others. But most visa recipients were ordinary families escaping the horrors of Nazi persecution.
For more information or to share any knowledge about visa recipients or their families, please contact info@sousamendesfoundation.org or visit the foundation's website: www.sousamendesfoundation.org
Rescue list
The following list includes just a few of the individuals who were either directly saved or whose families were saved as the result of the action of Aristides de Sousa Mendes:
Hamilton Fish Armstrong, founding editor, Foreign Affairs magazine
Thomas Bennigson, attorney, whose mother Edith Landsberg was rescued
Daniel Branton, Professor of cell biology, Harvard University
Dr. Sylvain Bromberger, Professor Emeritus of philosophy and linguistics, MIT
Salvador Dali
Ilja Dijour, representative of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
Richard de Grab, photographer
Archduke Otto von Habsburg and the Habsburg family
Robbert Hartog, Canadian business leader and philanthropist
Dr. Lissy Jarvik, Professor Emerita of Medicine, UCLA
Robert Lebel, art critic
Kizette de Lempicka, daughter of the artist Tamara de Lempicka
Alexander Liberman, sculptor, painter, and art director of Vogue magazine
Dr. Daniel Mattis, Professor of physics, University of Utah
Leon Moed, architect
Alfred Montesinos, former president of Cartier
Jonah Peretti, internet guru and co-founder of The Huffington Post, whose grandmother Adina Cherkin was rescued
Hans and Margret Rey, authors of the Curious George series
Baron Maurice de Rothschild and the Rothschild family
Boris Smolar, chief European correspondent, Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Tereska Torres, feminist writer and one of the first women to fight for Charles de Gaulle
Julian Tuwim, Polish poet and nephew of the pianist Arthur Rubinstein
King Vidor, Hollywood film director
Wilhelm Weinberg, art collector and philanthropist
Dr. Charles Weissmann, biomedical researcher, Scripps Research Institute
Source: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/search-is-launched-for-families-who-escaped-the-holocaust-through-portugal-136959183.html

segunda-feira, abril 11, 2011

Projecto procura crianças sobreviventes do holocausto

O Museu do Holocausto de Washington lançou Projecto nas redes sociais para encontrar crianças sobreviventes do holocausto que se dispersaram depois do fim da guerra.

http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,projeto-tenta-encontrar-criancas-que-sobreviveram-ao-holocausto,702676,0.htm

segunda-feira, janeiro 24, 2011

Otto von Habsburg awarded Medal of Merit of Macedonia


President Ivanov awards Otto von Habsburg with Medal of Merit
Monday, 17 January 2011

Otto von Habsburg, the eldest son of Charles I, the last Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, is awarded with the Medal of Merit of Macedonia under a decision of President Gjorge Ivanov.

The decoration is a recognition of Otto von Habsburg's personal engagement, as former chair of the Pan-European Union and member of the European Parliament, in promoting Macedonia's European future.

The medal will be presented to Otto von Habsburg's son Georg on January 18.

Otto von Habsburg, born in 1912, became Crown Prince of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia in 1916 when his father, Archduke Charles, ascended to the throne. However, in 1918, at the end of the First World War, the monarchies were abolished, the Republics of Austria and Hungary founded instead, and the family was forced into exile.

Otto von Habsburg spent the following years in Switzerland and in Madeira, where Karl died prematurely in 1922, making him pretender to the throne at the age of ten. Meanwhile, the Austrian parliament had officially expelled the Habsburg dynasty and confiscated all the official property (Habsburgergesetz of April 3, 1919). In 1935 he graduated from the University of Louvain, having studied social and political science. Otto spent most of the war years in Washington (1940-1944), after escaping from Austria to Portugal with a visa issued by the Portuguese consul in Bordeaux Aristides de Sousa Mendes. A fervent patriot, he had opposed the Nazi "Anschluss" of Austria of 1938 and also fought Hitler's regime from America. After the war, he lived in exile in France and Spain.

Well after the end of the Second World War, Otto von Habsburg finally renounced all claims to the Austrian throne (1961) and was eventually allowed to return to his home country in 1966.

An early advocate of a unified Europe, Otto was president of the International Pan European Union from 1973 to 2004, the oldest European unification movement. He served from 1979 till 1999 as a Member of the European Parliament for the conservative Bavarian CSU party, becoming the Senior Member of the supranational body.

Today, Otto von Habsburg lives near Munic

Source: http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/17380/45/

segunda-feira, outubro 11, 2010

Nova Sousa Mendes Foundation criada nos Estados Unidos

Anunciada a criação de uma nova fundação ARISTIDES DE SOUSA MENDES FOUNDATION - US!

Muitos parabéns ao Conselho de Administração da nova fundação Aristides de Sousa Mendes Foundation US!

Dr. Lissy Jarvik, Presidente, beneficiária de visto de Sousa Mendes
Sebastian Michael Mendes, Vice-Presidente, neto Sousa Mendes
Sheila Abranches, neta de Sousa Mendes
Miguel Avila, jornalista da Portuguese Tribune, California
Dr. Olivia Mattis, Secretária, filha e neta de beneficiários de vistos de Sousa Mendes
Harry Oesterreicher, Tesoureiro, filho e neto de beneficiários de vistos de Sousa Mendes
John Crisostomo, activista e voluntário do projecto Sousa Mendes

Carlos de Sousa Mendes, um dos netos multilingues de Aristides de Sousa Mendes, vai fazer parte da Sousa Mendes Foundation como Director de Relações Públicas. Ele pode ser contactado através de info@sousamendesfoundation.org, ou da página do Facebook abaixo indicada.

A nova Sousa Mendes Foundation US já estabeleceu uma conta Pay Pal para receber donativos. A nova organização foi criada nos Estados Unidos em tempo recorde e promete trazer novos apoios ao projecto da Casa do Passal e novo dinamismo à rede dos

"Amigos de Aristides"

Favor visitar a Sousa Mendes Foundation US na Internet em http://www.sousamendesfoundation.org/
Visitar também a página no on Facebook "How can I help?"
Hear Olivia Mattis speak about her family's rescue and the new ASM Foundation - US here 

quarta-feira, agosto 25, 2010

Play it again, Aristides

Play it again, Aristides

Numa nova edição da biografia de Aristides de Sousa MendesRui Afonso revela que dois atores de "Casablanca" - Marcel Dalio e Madeleine LeBeau - foram salvos pelo cônsul em Bordéus.

Fonte: Expresso

sexta-feira, agosto 06, 2010

…to see the actual ink that gave my father, and our family, life…



Having just recently discovered the diplomat who saved her family in 1940, Olivia Mattis is now anxious to see the Registry book and the “actual ink that gave my father, and our family, life…"



Her father Daniel Matuzewitz, only 7 years-old then, was travelling on his father’s passport, Joseph Matuzewitz, who was given visa number 1178 on 31-May-1940, by Aristides de Sousa Mendes, then the Consul General of Portugal in Bordeaux.

Daniel’s mother Lucie and three other family members are also registered in the visa book of the Consulate of Portugal in Bordeaux.

Lucie’s testimony about the family’s escape clearly details the efforts of Sousa Mendes, with the help of Rabbi Kruger, in granting visas to as many refugees as possible.



The Matuzewitz/Mattis family made it to the

safe-haven in Portugal and stayed in Coimbrafor a short time, then travelled by boat to
Brazil, until moving toNew York in 1941.
Thanks to his daughter’s research, Daniel Matuzewitz, now Mattis, was finally able to express his gratitude to Aristides Mendes, one of the diplomat’s 42 grand-children, in an emotional meeting at the Salt Lake City home of the Universityof Utah physics professor, in July 2010.

Connecting the Matuzewitz/Mattis and Sousa Mendes families is a momentous event, thanks to FACEBOOK and a lot of persistence. We may never know the names of most of the refugees who were saved by Sousa Mendes. The Bayonne Consulate Registry book went missing, and some visas were never recorded, in the rushed visa granting marathon which is estimated to have saved 30.000 refugees.
But the Registry of visas of the Consulate of Portugal in Bordeaux records the names of only a few of the many lucky families.


This powerful testimony to the Act of Conscience of Aristides de Sousa Mendes stands, and can be now be seen at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York.

According to Museum Director David Marwell, the visa Registry, on loan from the archives of Portugal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MNE), is "one of the most important historical artifacts" on display in the Museum.
To the Mattis family, those rushed scribblings made all the difference.


The newspaper article http://bit.ly/daiQPC
The TV broadcast on the meeting http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=12071786
More on the Mattis family story in
http://gfroche.blogspot.com/2010/09/elemental-querido-watson.html 
Hear Olivia Mattis speak of her family's rescue  and the new ASM Foundation - US  here 

quinta-feira, março 18, 2010

Grupo Aristides de Sousa Mendes no FACEBOOK

FACEBOOK users can now find other friends of Sousa Mendes in the FACEBOOK group created in memory of Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
In addition, group members hope to locate descendents of visa receipient, survivors and other refugees who passed through Portugal during World War II, under the tag:

"My family was saved by Aristides de Sousa Mendes"

Utilizadores do FACEBOOK podem encontrar outros amigos de Aristides de Sousa Mendes no grupo criado em sua memória:   

VER Facebook Group Sousa Mendes:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=36830729866#/group.php?gid=43904597376

My family was saved by Aristides de Sousa Mendes
http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?ref=sb#/group.php?sid=cca0f9fccbc998f40951bc3b1de4dcec&gid=36830729866&ref=search

sábado, fevereiro 27, 2010

Livro de vistos de Sousa Mendes de novo em Nova Iorque

sábado, 27 de Fevereiro de 2010
EUA: Registos de Aristides Sousa Mendes podem voltar a Museu Judaico de NI

O livro de registos de vistos do cônsulado de Bordéus de 1940, onde estão registados alguns dos vistos de Aristides de Sousa Mendes, um documento histórico do tempo da Segunda Grande Guerra, pode voltar a Nova Iorque ao Museu Judaico ainda este ano.

João Crisóstomo, um ativista português residente nos Estados Unidos e um dos vice-presidentes da Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, está neste momento em Lisboa e espera ter luz verde do ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros, Luís Amado, para ter o livro no Museu nova-iorquino a 17 de junho de 2010, dia que marca os 70 anos em que Aristides de Sousa Mendes começou a conceder vistos em massa a judeus e a outros refugiados da Segunda Grande Guerra, sem autorização de Lisboa.

Crisóstomo disse à Lusa que, para marcar a efeméride, vai ser realizada uma missa no Vaticano, em Newark, Nova Jérsia, e em outras capitais europeias.

O livro de visto estêve no Museum of Jewish Heritage em Nova Iorque durante um ano em 2006, como foi noticiado neste blog

The official register of the Portuguese Consulate of Portugal in Bordeaux, which has many of the visas granted by Sousa Mendes in 1940, is likely to be shown again in the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York.
Fonte: Diário Digital / Lusa

segunda-feira, julho 20, 2009

Visitas à Casa do Passal a 23-Julho

O Embaixador de Israel e o Ministro da Cultura vão fazer visitas separadas à Casa do Passal em Cabanas de Viriato a 23-Julho, (11h e 19h) junto com os responsáveis pela Fundação Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
A Casa do Passal, que foi classificada como Monumento Nacional, continua a aguardar o plano de obras de reabilitação para vir um dia a albergar um museu e centro de memória.

A avaliar pelo o novo buraco no telhado que está cada vez maior, parece ser necessário fazer uma intervenção de urgência para evitar o colapso do telhado que pode provocar danos ainda mais graves.


Para marcar a ocasião do 124º aniversário do nascimento de Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a 19-Julho-1885, houve eventos em Moreira de Cónegos, e em Gueifães, Maia e foi publicado um artigo no jornal O Povo em Porto Alegre, Brasil.
Fonte: Museu Virtual Aristides de Sousa Mendes, http://mvasm.sapo.pt/bc/Noticias.aspx
VER também http://antoniopovinho.blogspot.com/
e http://soroptimistapt.blogspot.com/