Slyper
Visa Recipients
- SLYPER, Ezechiel P A
Age 59 | Visa #2043 - SLYPER, Herman Joseph P A
Age 19 - SLYPER, Joseph P A
Age 53 - SLYPER, Lea Rosa P A
Age 22 - SLYPER, Rachel née ASSCHER P A
Age 61 | Visa #2047 - SLYPER, Rosa née GELEERD P A
Age 45
About the Family
The numbered visas were issued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Bordeaux on June 18, 1940. Sousa Mendes requested a visa for Joseph SLYPER in a telegram to Salazar, the Portuguese head of state, but the latter denied it in a return telegram.
The Slyper family, Dutch citizens, crossed into Portugal. Ezechiel and Rachel SLYPER subsequently sailed on the Quanza from Lisbon to New York in August 1940.
- Photos
- Artifacts
Telegram from Sousa Mendes on behalf of Joseph SLYPER
Telegram from Sousa Mendes on behalf of Rosa, Lea and Hermann SLYPER
Telegram from Salazar denying visas to this family and others - Courtesy of the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs archives, Lisbon
Page of Sousa Mendes Visa Registry Book listing this family and others - Courtesy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs archives, Lisbon