Ship: William S. Thayer (USA) Birth place – Cape Verde Birth date – 01/10/1896 Death date – 30/04/1944 Father – Mother – Zacharias Neves disappeared when he was aboard the William S. Thayer, where he worked as an oiler. On April … Read more
Did you know that a group of Dutch refugees in Portugal bought bathing suits to force their elements to bathe in the sea, saving money on baths in pensions that had to be paid or that a Portuguese man left … Read more
A memorial commemorating the rescue of six American aviators by fishermen on the night of November 30, 1943 will be inaugurated in Faro in the next days. To know this story better, we will listen to Ti’ Jaime – one … Read more
In 1943 Rogério de Menezes – an employee of the Portuguese Embassy in London – was sentenced to death in England, accused of spying for the Germans… The sentence, however, was never served and at the end of the war … Read more
Sergeant Major Hong Kong Volunteers Defence Corps Unidade – 6th Light Anti-Aircraft Company Birth place – Hong Kong Birth date – 20/12/1896 Death date – 20/02/1957 Father – Marciano António Baptista Jr. Mother – Clothilde Maria Marciano Baptista (Naneli), … Read more
Ana da Silva Pinho is the author of the book “The Cáritas children between Austria and Portugal (1947-1958)”, a research that addresses the experiences of several thousand minors form central European country who, after the war, were welcomed in Portugal. … Read more
Private Hong Kong Volunteer Defense Corps Unit – Birth place – Hong Kong Birth date – Death date – 03/01/1944 Father – Mother – Alberto Soares was a volunteer in the Hong Kong Volunteers Defense Corps of Hong … Read more
Private Hong Kong Volunteer Defense Corps Military Unit – 5 Coy (Portuguese) Birth place – Hong Kong Birth Birth date – 31/05/1903 Death date – 20/11/1973 Father – Honorato Vicente Pinna Mother – Vitelina Maria Pinna Cordeiro Carlos Pinna … Read more
Private Hong Kong Volunteers Defense Corps Unit – 6 Coy HKVDC Birth place – Hong Kong Birth date – 21/ 12/ 1913 Death date – 04/12/1976 Father – Francisco Apolónio Castilho Mother – Eldmira Castilho Thomas Manuel Castilho was a … Read more
Historian Irene Pimentel guides us through the Holocaust or Shoa, the subject of her latest book and one of the most remarkable events of World War II. More than eighty years after the allies discovered what the “Final Solution” meant, … Read more
