@SousaMendesFdn " Journey on the Road to Freedom" Visits Figueira da Foz, #Portugal

The citizens of the charming beach town of Figueira da Foz welcomed approximately 600 refugees in 1940.

One Sousa Mendes visa recipient, and several descendants of visa recipients are pictured below with descendants of the man who saved them, Aristides de Sousa Mendes. They are joined by #Holocaust educators from Canada, the USA and Portugal.

The group is seated in front of the same Farol (lighthouse) de Santa Catarina that was the backdrop for the photo of the Krakowiak Family in 1941 (below).

"Journey on the Road to Freedom" group in Figueira da Foz, Portugal. Photo credit: Maurice Weiss, Der Spiegel - July 2019.

Hala and Ignas Krakowiak with their daughter Yvonne.

Yvonne, who was almost three years old, is seen parading around town in the Minho dress that Maria-Luisa, Alberto’s daughter had outgrown. Alberto loaned the Mardi Gras costume to Yvonne even though their would be no parade por causa da guerra in 1941.

Read the Krakowiak Family‘s story in My Sister’s Eyes: A Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II; from their happy life in Poland through their escape from the Nazi onslaught to their arrival in New York, a journey of 1,241 days.

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