Van Dam
Visa Recipients
- VAN DAM, Dientje Anna née VAN DAM A
Age 45 | Visa #1688 - VAN DAM, Lodewijk A
Age 53 | Visa #1689
About the Family
The VAN DAM family received visas from Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Bordeaux on June 15, 1940.
They traveled from Bayonne, France to Santander, Spain on the vessel Milena then continued to Portugal by train. They sailed from Lisbon to New York on the vessel Nea Hellas in August 1940.
- Artifacts
Page of Sousa Mendes Visa Registry Book listing this family and others - Courtesy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs archives, Lisbon
Article from Santander newspaper mentioning this family, June 1940, p.1
Article from Santander newspaper mentioning this family, June 1940, p.2