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.

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Telegram from Sousa Mendes on behalf of Slipper

Telegram from Sousa Mendes on behalf of SLYPER

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

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