Lejeune/Wallis

Visa Recipients

  • LEJEUNE, Marie/Constance A
    Age 38 | Visa #1519
  • WALLIS, Blanche A
    Age 38 | Visa #1520

About the Family

These visas were issued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Bordeaux on June 14, 1940.

Constance LEJEUNE and Blanche WALLIS were twin sisters. They crossed into Portugal and subsequently sailed from Lisbon to New York on the vessel Nea Hellas in October 1940.

  • Artifact
1515-49

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