Benbassat/Hahn

Visa Recipients

  • BENBASSAT, Charlotte Margarethe née HAHN P
    Age 35
  • BENBASSAT, Marco Eliezer P A
    Age 43 | Visa #2087
  • HAHN, Jana P A
    Age 58 | Visa #2089

About the Family

Marco Eliezer BENBASSAT, his wife Charlotte Margarethe, and her mother Jana HAHN received visas from Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Bordeaux on June 18, 1940.

They crossed into Portugal, where they resided in Curia.

Jana HAHN sailed from Lisbon to New York on the vessel Nyassa in December 1940, and the BENBASSAT couple followed on the Serpa Pinto in March 1941.

PhotosArtifacts
  • Photos

Refugees in Curia, 1940. L-R: Frederic SEGALL, William PICK (later PETERS), unknown, Eva STADLER, Edith STADLER, unknown, Jana HAHN, Charlotte BENBASSAT, Marco BENBASSAT, Milada PICK (later PETERS)

  • Artifact
2059-94

Page of Sousa Mendes Visa Registry Book listing this family and others - Courtesy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs archives, Lisbon