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Portuguese diplomat Carlos de Liz-Texeira Branquinho poses on a hilltop overlooking a city.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 45667
Portuguese diplomat Carlos de Liz-Texeira Branquinho poses on a hilltop overlooking a city.

Portuguese diplomat Carlos de Liz-Texeira Branquinho poses on a hilltop overlooking a city.

Locale
Portugal
Photo Designation
RESCUE MISSIONS -- Diplomatic Rescue -- Hungary: Rescue of Budapest Jewry -- Diplomats/Legations -- Portuguese
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Eric Saul

About This Photograph

Biography
Carlos de Liz-Texeira Branquinho, Portuguese chargé d'affaires in Budapest in 1944, who issued safe conduct papers to Hungarian Jews trying to evade deportation. Branquinho received permission from his government to issue 500 documents to all persons who had relatives in Portugal, Brazil or any Portuguese colony. In actuality, he dispensed more than 800. These Jews were given refuge in several safe houses established by the Portuguese legation. Branquinho also set up an office of the Portuguese Red Cross at the legation in Budapest to help care for Jewish refugees.

[Source: Saul, Eric. "Visa for Life" exhibition, February 2000]

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
Eric Saul
Copyright: Agency Agreement (No Fees)
Provenance: Christina Branquinho
Source Record ID: File 24
 
Record last modified: 2003-10-21 00:00:00
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