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
A conversation with Elsa Lemos about her research on her great-uncle Mário Enguiça, an opponent of the Estado Novo exiled to Timor, accused of two bomb attacks in Lisbon. It is believed that he starved to death following the Japanese … Read More
The museologist Hugo Vaz takes us on a visit to the Holocaust Museum in Porto, which opened its doors in April 2021. With him we will visit the museum that tells the story of the Jewish community before, during and … Read More
Inês Fialho Brandão, museologist and responsible for the Memory of Exiles Space, in Estoril, explains the objectives of the project “Where are the children”, an initiative that put 12th grade students looking for the stories of nine minors found in … Read More
The fishing vessel Cabo de São Vicente was sunk on March 10, 1942 by a German FW200 – Condor bomber off the Cabo da Roca. In a conversation with Richard Souza, grandson of the fishing boat commander, and Günther Ott, … Read More
Teachers Dores do Carmo and Josefa Reis founded a couple of decades ago “Dever de Memória” (Duty of Memory), an initiative that remembers and celebrates Aristides de Sousa Mendes and his intervention in Bordeaux in 1940 when he handed over … Read More
During his military service, which he carried out between 1942 and 1944, João Viegas traveled the country at the wheel of huge trucks, collecting and transporting to Portuguese military bases the remains of English airplanes that fell all over the … Read More
