Nagelschmidt
Visa Recipients
- NAGELSCHMIDT, Gianfranco A
Age 6 - NAGELSCHMIDT, Nora née STOCK P A
Age 32 | Visa #1405 - NAGELSCHMIDT, Piero A
Age 9 | Visa #1407 - NAGELSCHMIDT, Richard P A
Age 36 | Visa #1406
About the Family
The NAGELSCHMIDT family received visas from Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Bordeaux on June 12, 1940.
Richard NAGELSCHMIDT, from Berlin, moved to Italy as a young man, where he met his wife Nora and where their sons were born. Following the Hitler-Mussolini pact the family escaped to France. After their German citizenship was nullified by the Nuremberg laws they were able to purchase Haitian passports. They then sought to obtain visas to leave Europe. With visas from Sousa Mendes the family crossed into Portugal and subsequently emigrated to Brazil, sailing from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro on the vessel Angola in July/August 1940.
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Visa issued to Richard NAGELSCHMIDT in Bordeaux
Page of Sousa Mendes Visa Registry Book listing this family and others - Courtesy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs archives, Lisbon
Passenger list showing this family and others traveling from Lisbon to Rio on the vessel ANGOLA in July/August 1940 - De Grummond Children's Literature Collection, University of Southern Mississippi