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Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Man Spends 20 Years Getting Recognition for a Hero of the HolocaustThis is just a nice story: Robert Jacobvitz spent much of the last 20 years in obscurity trying to rectify the image of a World War II era diplomat few had heard of, let alone remembered.
Tonight, Jacobvitz will take center stage in New York, receiving a medal from the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Jacobvitz is being honored for his efforts to commemorate Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese consul in France in 1940 who defied his government for three days, issuing 30,000 visas -- 10,000 to Jews -- to people trying to flee the Nazis.Good backgrounder on Sousa Mendes here.
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