The Krakowiak and Malafaia families will be featured with this collage of photos at the Vilar Formoso - Frontier of Peace Museum. This former train station is the point where thousands of refugees seeking safe haven flooded into Portugal in 1940.(See map - http://bit.ly/2vd9V9l ).
     Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal, will be inaugurating the museum on August 26, 2017.
     Joan will also be placing her sister Yvonne's yarn doll in the showcase (see square right middle). Architect and museum creator Luisa Pacheco Marques told Joan that she could not locate another doll of this period in all of Portugal. This convinced Joan to loan her precious possession to the museum.