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Oral history interview with Carlos Mendes

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.574 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0574

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    Oral history interview with Carlos Mendes

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Carlos Mendes describes his memories of his father's work and the family's life in the foreign service; the events in 1940 that resulted in thousands of visas given to French refugees in defiance of the Portuguese government's policy; the reasons for and consequences of his father's actions, and the loss of his job and status; his pride in his father's work; his own service in the British Army; and the posthumous honors his father received.
    Interviewee
    Carlos Mendes
    Interviewer
    Lani Silver
    Eric Saul
    Date
    interview:  1996 September 10
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Carlos Mendes on September 10, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in February 2003.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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