Aristides de Sousa Mendes
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Oct 8, 2026
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He was able to convince the authorities that he wasn't really very German, so he spent a bit of time in a debarkation camp in Bordeaux, awaiting a visa to leave for the United States.
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In June of 1940, he was one of several thousand people granted a visa by Portuguese consul Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
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By August, he was in Lisbon, boarding a ship bound for New York City.
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He stayed briefly with his brother, who'd emigrated to New York in 1939, and by 1942, Ernest Milamerson was finishing up a master's degree in economics at the University of Iowa.