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      Se lanza búsqueda de familias que escaparon del Holocausto a través de Portugal


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      Jan 09, 2012, 05:05 ET

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      SEATTLE, 9 de enero de 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- La Fundación Sousa Mendes está buscando identificar y localizar a refugiados del Holocausto que recibieron visas de Aristides de Sousa Mendes que les salvaron la vida en la primavera de 1940. Se estima que Sousa Mendes, el cónsul portugués en Burdeos (Francia), rescató a unas 30.000 personas del Holocausto. Para ello, entregó a los refugiados visas para Portugal, contraviniendo un documento llamado "Circular 14", difundido por el gobierno portugués a sus cuerpos consulares, que contenía órdenes estrictas de no hacerlo. En consecuencia, fue sometido a juicio por la dictadura de Salazar y duramente castigado.

      Aristides de Sousa Mendes murió en la pobreza y el oprobio oficial en 1954, y fue casi borrado de la historia. En 1966 fue declarado de manera póstuma "Justo entre las Naciones" por Yad Vashem, autoridad de Israel del Holocausto. A fines de la década de 1980, el gobierno portugués se disculpó formalmente ante la familia Sousa Mendes y lo ascendió póstumamente al rango de embajador.

      La Fundación Sousa Mendes, creada en el año 2010 como asociación entre la familia del héroe y las familias de aquellos a los que rescató, ha iniciado una búsqueda sin precedentes de los rescatados. Estas personas y familias provenían de todas partes de Europa, recibieron visas portuguesas en el sur de Francia (Burdeos, Bayona, Hendaya o Toulouse) en abril, mayo o junio de 1940, y viajaron luego a través de España hacia Portugal, desde donde se esparcieron por los Estados Unidos, Canadá, Brasil, el Reino Unido y otras partes entre 1940 y 1942.

      "La mayoría de las personas que fueron salvadas por Sousa Mendes ni siquiera sabe que alguien las salvó", sostiene el Dr. Sylvain Bromberger, profesor emérito en el MIT y uno de los afortunados rescatados. Bromberger participa en el Directorio de la Fundación y está colaborando con esta iniciativa. La búsqueda está siendo encabezada por otra integrante del Directorio, la Dra. Olivia Mattis, en asociación con una investigadora voluntaria, Marie J. Gomes.

      Algunos receptores famosos de la visa de Sousa Mendes fueron Salvador Dalí, Hans y Margret Rey (autores de Curious George), la familia Habsburgo, la familia Rothschild y el realizador cinematográfico King Vidor, entre otros. Pero la mayoría de los que recibieron la visa eran miembros de familias comunes que huían de los horrores de la persecución nazi.

      Para más información o para compartir cualquier conocimiento que se tenga sobre personas que recibieron la visa o sus familias, por favor escriba a [email protected] o visite el sitio web de la fundación: www.sousamendesfoundation.org

      Lista de rescatados

      La lista siguiente incluye solo a algunas de las personas que fueron directamente salvadas o cuyas familias fueron salvadas por la acción de Aristides de Sousa Mendes:

      Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor fundador de la revista Foreign Affairs
      Thomas Bennigson, abogado, cuya madre Edith Landsberg fue rescatada
      Daniel Branton, profesor de Biología Celular, Universidad de Harvard
      Dr. Sylvain Bromberger, profesor emérito de Filosofía y Lingüística, MIT
      Salvador Dalí
      Ilja Dijour, representante de la Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (Asociación Hebrea de Ayuda a Inmigrantes)
      Richard de Grab, fotógrafo
      Archiduque Otto von Habsburg y la familia Habsburgo
      Robbert Hartog, líder empresarial y filántropo canadiense
      Dra. Lissy Jarvik, profesora emérita de Medicina, UCLA
      Robert Lebel, crítico de arte
      Kizette de Lempicka, hija de la artista Tamara de Lempicka
      Alexander Liberman, escultor, pintor y director de arte de la revista Vogue
      Dr. Daniel Mattis, profesor de Física, Universidad de Utah
      Leon Moed, arquitecto
      Alfred Montesinos, ex presidente de Cartier
      Jonah Peretti, gurú de Internet y cofundador de The Huffington Post, cuya abuela Adina Cherkin fue rescatada
      Hans y Margret Rey, autores de la serie Curious George
      Barón Maurice de Rothschild y la familia Rothschild
      Boris Smolar, corresponsal europeo jefe de la Jewish Telegraphic Agency (Agencia Telegráfica Judía)
      Tereska Torres, escritora feminista y una de las primeras mujeres que combatieron por Charles de Gaulle
      Julian Tuwim, poeta polaco y sobrino del pianista Arthur Rubinstein
      King Vidor, director cinematográfico de Hollywood
      Wilhelm Weinberg, coleccionista de arte y filántropo
      Dr. Charles Weissmann, investigador biomédico, Scripps Research Institute

      FUENTE  The Sousa Mendes Foundation

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