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"As Portugal's consul in Bordeaux, Aristides de Sousa Mendes faced a moral dilemma. Should he obey government orders or listen to his own conscience and supply
by miles 6y ago
"As Portugal's consul in Bordeaux, Aristides de Sousa Mendes faced a moral dilemma. Should he obey government orders or listen to his own conscience and supply Jews with the visas that would allow them to escape from advancing German forces? ... But his initiative also spelt the end of a diplomatic career under Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, and the rest of his life was spent in penury."
Sounds exactly like Chiune Sugihara's story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_Sugihara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_Sugihara
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/04/chiune-sugihara-my-father-japanese-schindler-saved-6000-jews-lithuania https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/04/chiune-sugihar...
- drocer88 6y agoFrom the wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristides_de_Sousa_Mendes#Encounter_with_Rabbi_Chaim_Tzvi_Kruger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristides_de_Sousa_Mendes#Enco... "Sousa Mendes was listed in the Portuguese Consular and Diplomatic Yearbook until 1954.[107][108] After the one year punishment with half-pay, he received a monthly payment of 1,593 Portuguese escudos per month.[109][110][111] According to Rui Afonso, "although it was not a salary of a prince, one should not forget that at that time, in Portugal, the monthly salary of a school teacher was only 500 Escudos".[109] When he died, in 1954 he was receiving a monthly salary of 2,300 escudos."