Vilar Formoso Fronteira da Paz

The Vilar Formoso Fronteira da Paz (Frontier of Peace) memorial is a museum devoted to the role played by the Portuguese border town of Vilar Formoso in the reception of Jewish refugees and others from France and elsewhere who were escaping Nazi persecution in World War II. == History == Seeking to escape from advancing German troops, many Jews, from France and elsewhere, made their way to Bordeaux in the hope of obtaining visas to enter Portugal. The Portuguese consul-general, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, ignored instructions from António de Oliveira Salazar, leader of Portugal's authoritarian Estado Novo regime, which remained neutral during the war but had no desire to upset the Germans, and continued to issue thousands of visas in Bordeaux, moving to Bayonne after Bordeaux was bombed.

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Vilar Formoso Fronteira da Paz

The Vilar Formoso Fronteira da Paz (Frontier of Peace) memorial is a museum devoted to the role played by the Portuguese border town of Vilar Formoso in the reception of Jewish refugees and others from France and elsewhere who were escaping Nazi persecution in World War II. == History == Seeking to escape from advancing German troops, many Jews, from France and elsewhere, made their way to Bordeaux in the hope of obtaining visas to enter Portugal. The Portuguese consul-general, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, ignored instructions from António de Oliveira Salazar, leader of Portugal's authoritarian Estado Novo regime, which remained neutral during the war but had no desire to upset the Germans, and continued to issue thousands of visas in Bordeaux, moving to Bayonne after Bordeaux was bombed.

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