Grab

Visa Recipients

  • GRAB, Hermann P A
    Age 37 | Visa #1620
  • GRAB, Leo A
    Age 32 | Visa #1476
  • GRAB, Richard
    Age 13
  • GRABOVA, Nelly A
    Age 41 | Visa #1478

About the Family

The GRAB family received visas from Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Bordeaux on June 14 and 15, 1940.

They crossed into Portugal and sailed from Lisbon to New York on the Nyassa in December 1940.

Hermann GRAB was a novelist and music critic. Nelly GRABOVA became a prominent fashion designer under the name Nelly DE GRAB, and her son Richard DE GRAB became a prominent photographer.

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1443-78

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

1586-1621

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