On Thursday, November 5, 2020 • 4:00 p.m. ET, in commemoration of Kristallnacht, Drew University will host Joan Halperin discussing her bookMy Sister’s Eyes: A Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II.
Sousa Mendes was the Portuguese Consul General in Bordeaux, France in 1940 who, in defiance of his government’s orders, issued thousands of visas to desperate refugees fleeing the Nazi invasion of Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.
This heroic feat was characterized by the Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer as “perhaps the largest rescue action by a single individual during the Holocaust.”
