Soldinger

Visa Recipients

  • SOLDINGER, Alfred A
    Age 26 | Visa #1956
  • SOLDINGER, Augusta A
    Age 50 | Visa #1957
  • SOLDINGER, Jacques A
    Age 60 | Visa #1957

About the Family

The SOLDINGER family received their visas from Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Bordeaux on June 17, 1940, after having been explicitly refused by Salazar, the Portuguese head of state.

They crossed into Portugal and traveled from there to Cuba and then to Trinidad and British Guyana. In January 1941 Jacques sailed from Georgetown, British Guyana to Boston aboard the vessel Lady Hawkins. Alfred (Freddy) followed on the same ship in February, and Augusta sailed on the ship Acadia from St. Thomas to New York, arriving there in April 1941.

Augusta LORIE, the sister of Jacques SOLDINGER, also received a visa from Aristides de Sousa Mendes and emigrated through Portugal.

  • Artifacts
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Telegram from Salazar denying visas to this family and others - Courtesy of the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs archives, Lisbon

1951-86

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