Tommasi

Visa Recipient

  • TOMMASI, Margherita A

About the Individual

Margherita TOMMASI is presumed to have received a visa from Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Bordeaux, France in June 1940 after having been explicitly denied by António Salazar, the Portuguese head of state.

Artifacts
  • Artifacts
TOMMASI BLECK

Telegram from Aristides de Sousa Mendes requesting permission to grant a visa to this individual and others

REFUSAL STOKVIS AND OTHERS

Refusal by António Salazar to grant visas to this family and others - Photo courtesy of Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archives, Lisbon