Brazil honors diplomats that saved Jews from Nazis
BRASILIA, Brazil
(AP) — Two Brazilian diplomats who helped save hundreds of Jews from ending up
in Nazi concentration camps have been honored during an International Holocaust
Remembrance Day ceremony.
The Wednesday night ceremony paid
tribute to Aracy Guimaraes Rosa, a staff member of the Brazilian consulate in
Hamburg in the 1930s and 1940s and Luis Martins de Souza Dantas, Brazil's
ambassador to France during the same period. Both issued hundreds visas to
Jews.
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| Aracy Guimaraes Rosa |
Claudio Lottenberg, president of
the Jewish confederation, said the two diplomats had "the courage to
disobey foreign ministry orders to restrict the entrance of Jews into
Brazil."
Source:
Associated
Press, via Julio Severo in English:
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