Reasons of humanity: Aristides Sousa Mendes

Auteurs

  • Manuela Franco

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-3053.1.1.114-122

Mots-clés :

Aristides Sousa Mendes, Nazism, War

Résumé

Sixty seven years to this month of November 2007, Aristides Sousa Mendes stood condemned to one year's suspension on half pay followed by compulsory retirement from the diplomatic service. I will bring before you the case of this Portuguese diplomat, a Righteous Gentile, whom in the War's darkest hour, faced with a political and social order contradictory to human dignity, submitted to moral obligation. Rather than seeking refuge in the magic of faith, he chose effective action, and used his power to help thousands of people escape the German westward advance, a decision for which he was himself to become an outcast – till his death and beyond, for it took almost 50 years for him to be reinstated.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Manuela Franco,

Pesquisadora do Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Vogal da Comissão de Seleção e Desclassificação do Arquivo Histórico Diplomático, MNE, 2004. Pesquisadora Associada Júnior do Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. Coordenadora do Projeto: "O Estado Novo e a Questão Judaica, 1999.

Références

ARENDT, Hannah. Preface to Walter Benjamin's Illuminations. New York: Schoken Books, 1969.

ARENDT, Hannah. Men in Dark Times. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1968.

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Publiée

2007-10-30

Comment citer

Franco, M. (2007). Reasons of humanity: Aristides Sousa Mendes. Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital De Estudos Judaicos Da UFMG, 1(1), 114–122. https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-3053.1.1.114-122