Aristides de Sousa Mendes è stato un diplomatico portoghese.
Rifiutandosi di eseguire gli ordini del suo governo e concedendo visti a rifugiati di tutte le nazionalità che dovevano fuggire dalla Francia nel 1940, anno dell'invasione della Francia da parte della Germania nazista nella Seconda guerra mondiale Aristides salvò decine di migliaia di persone dall'Olocausto.
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“I would stand with God against man, rather than with man against God.”
Quoted in Bard The Complete History of the Holocaust (2001), p. 327; see also "Aristides de Sousa Mendes" at Jewish Virtual Library http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Mendes.html.
“At a time when many men were cowards, he was a true hero to the West.”
Otto von Habsburg, quoted in The Independent, Sunday 17 October 2010
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Sonja Jarvik, quoted in The Independent, Sunday 17 October 2010
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“I could not have acted otherwise, and I therefore accept all that has befallen me with love.”
Quoted in The Independent, Sunday 17 October 2010
Louis-Philippe Mendes, Huffington Post, 18 April 2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louisphilippe-mendes/holocaust-remembrance-day_b_1434733.html
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Quoted in The Independent, Sunday 17 October 2010 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/sousa-mendes-saved-more-lives-than-schindler-so-why-isnt-he-a-household-name-too-2105882.html
Quoted in Huffington Post, 18 April 2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louisphilippe-mendes/holocaust-remembrance-day_b_1434733.html
“Even if I am dismissed, I can only act as a Christian, as my conscience tells me.”
Quoted in The Independent, Sunday 17 October 2010
