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The Forgotten Portuguese Schindler Who SACRIFICED it All to Save the Lives of Many in WW2
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- Опубліковано 18 сер 2024
- This is the Story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, known as Portugal's Schindler. In this front episode we discuss the Portuguese consular who issued visas and other documents and saved many refugees (including many Jews) from the Germans, allowing them to enter Portugal and even flee Europe via Port Lisbon.
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:19 Aristides de Sousa Mendes
3:00 Portugal's treatment of Jews
4:27 Aristides as General-Consul
5:44 I would rather stand with God and against man
8:26 After the War
10:18 Recognition
11:27 Conclusion
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Im portuguese, tanks for your recognition
Portugal is one of the most underrated nations in the world..
Portugal has such a beautiful culture! Feijoada all the way!
Yeah tanks
@@Btester2 Yup, it is what it is
Finally a man with tast... ;-)
This man deserves a noble prize of peace
Im portuguese, no one talks of Portugal except you and I want to thank you for that
That is true. At least a brazillian guy called dgp mundo talks about us too i suggest you watch 👍
I'm portuguese and this is so not true. Portugal's a hot topic in many sectors.
@@BernasLL in english speaking channels on youtube i dont see that. I'm not ingrained that much in portuguese/brazillian channels. The only english channel is a portuguese guy behind general knowledge.
I am a Canadian of Nova Scotian/Brit ancestry but I live in Toronto's Little Portugal and I was totally unaware of Aristides de Sousa Mendes. That said, I know the quality of Portuguese people and am not surprised a Man as this existed. I'd say the nickname is ok because it makes people understand what a great man he was easy but I am going to remember Aristides for his name. Thank you for sharing this and educating us about a great man!
In our family, the elders constantly talked about a man who stood against Salazar and the Nazi's. How he saved countless Jews and others. Now I know who they were talking about. Makes me proud of my Portuguese heritage 🇵🇹
It's good you focus a lot on the different countries of ww2 rather than just the main countries like America Russia or Germany
That's what we do here at The Front!
@@TheFront Do you have a video about "Irish neutrality" in WW2? It's a fascinating subject.
Thank you for finally giving Portuguese more recognition🙏-I’m Portuguese Lol🇵🇹🇵🇹
Portuguese culture and language is beautiful!
@@TheFront Wanna learn some words friend? i can teach you XD
It is exactly this kind of human and civic courage that the world continues to desperately need. 'Obrigado' for sharing the word.
Glad he's slowly getting known. Era um grande herói 🇵🇹
Aristides was a true hero, and we all need to think why he suffered... Thousands of thieves and corrupted embassy clerks enjoyed much better lives while true heroes like him died alone in poverty. Even today we are responsible to find out why! Why the Portuguese government and society have chosen to punish him .
I'm Portuguese canadian, thanks so much for the lesson!
The Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz literally saved around 60'000 jews in Hungary during the war and the Swiss government failed to recognise his actions and said, what he was doing, had exceeded his authority and endangered Swiss neutrality. Would be great, if you could make a video about him.
Thank you for this video! As a Portuguese I thank you for the research and your work in shedding some light into the History of this hero’s life 🙏
It's very well done your video, not only Jews people he saved, the future french general Lecrelc had also a visa from Aristides . When Portuguese officials came to arrest him he had fled to Bayonne et make visas to everyone that was in railway train to Spain during almost a week our two. Only France make a telefilm about him and his incredible adventure. For me is an honour knowing that, a consul, a official fighting this monstrosity against is own country dictator. Proud to be Portuguese also like me.
Sometimes are greatest heroes are not found on the battlefield.
I never heard of him before today. Thank you for telling his story.
Obrigado Aristides.
I'm glad that he was honored and remembered as among The Righteous of Nations, these Gentiles who saved the Jews during the Second World War. This man's life should have a movie. Thanks for featuring him. I learned more from your channel than from all those World History classes I attended in school.
There is a movie and also Aristides was very recently subject to a special honour by the Portuguese State: an inscription was put in the National Pantheon.
The movie
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Aristides de Sousa Mendes wasn't the "Portuguese Schindler". I think it is more accurate to say that Oskar Schindler was the German "Aristides de Sousa Mendes"
Exactly
No. Each one has their own merits, no comparisons. I have not seen anyone here talking about Count Folke Benadotte, i dont wonder why.. (yes, the one who saved a lot more people from concentration camps and later was assassinated by one israeli president). I also have not seen anyone talking about the portuguese banker from CGD in Macau, neither the portuguese consul on Hungary.
Also, Schindler had something to gain from the help he gave. I went to his factory in Poland and they shit talked him a fair bit.
We ( Portuguese) don't make movie out our deeds , our marketing department isn't at the level of the Germans ...I guess we has a people just need to know that we did ... and don't need the attention ...
Not as famous as the Shanghai Getto.
Great video, mate! This was yet another topic that was new to me. I don't know how you come up with them, but I'm glad that you do! What a brave man he was in such a horrible and dangerous time. It says so much about him that, not only his children, but so many others fought so long to get his name cleared and get him recognized for his courageous actions to save so many lives during WWII. God bless his memory. Please keep the outstanding videos coming and God bless you, my friend!
He would be closer to Sugihara Chiune. He also wrote thousands of visas and was condemned by his own government eventually dying in obscurity.
Instead of Schindler, it would be more apt to compare Mendes to other diplomats, such as Raoul Wallenberg (Swedish) or Chiune Sugihara (Japanese), who as Schindler, made the moral decision to save Jewish refugees and others at the the risk of their careers, reputations or lives.
🤔 Hello. I am pleased to find another admirer of the Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara. Unlike the Nazis, the Japanese had no negative views concerning Jews. In Japan the Nazi attitude towards certain peoples was incomprehensible. Yet they assumed high superiority towards other Asian people. Inscrutability to the extreme, it would seem.
Seems like Portugal is getting a lot of recognition today with videos from both The Front & Kings and Generals
Have never heard this story!! God Bless him!! Thank you for sharing!!
Saw Schindler's List a long time ago.Thanks for mentioning this unknown story.
Love your vids. You should do one about António De Oliveira Salazar
Great suggestion!
This man right here just teached me of a random person helping alot of people in world war 2, i am so angry that i couldn't even help them a single bits of money because i haven't even borned yet.
Never heard of this, thanks.
Glad we could bring this story to your attention!
Been looking forward to the video on this heroic man, Schindler gets a Hollywood movie, he gets a vid on a small but great history channel!
You should also look at Giorgio Perlasca, a former fascist who helped saving 8.000 Hungarian Jews by giving them false cards as Spanish citizens. I recommend you to read his story.
I must say "PORTUGAL CARALHO"
ur are a true son of Portugal caralho
AH POIS CARAGO
PORTUGAL CARALHO
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‘I’d rather fight God against man than man against God’ what a man!
That's not what he said... He said "I would rather STAND WITH GOD and against MAN than with man and AGAINST GOD". Sounds bit religious to me.... And complete opposite of what you said.
I bet he's in Heaven.
No ammount of good deeds can get you to heaven, its only by faith in Christ
@@alexm7627 lol, the muslims say otherwise
@@clintstewart5545 unfortunately
@@Duck-wc9de what if i told you, there's no good deed we can do that will get us to heaven except for one thing, faith in Christ (btw i dont want to discredit the man's sacrifice because its very honourable)
Not just Christ but God. Oh wait an atheist will attack me by chance
The man is a legend!
Absolutely..he helped a lot of people
GOD Bless Him 🙏
Curious facts:
Aristedes' home, Casa do Passal in Cabanas do Viritato, was recently restored after decades of total abandonment and degradation. His home was here: goo.gl/maps/fV699ysZdYCPFaBCA
In Vilar Formoso, one of Portugal's main borders with Spain, stands the "Vilar Formoso - Fronteira da Paz" museum, opened in 2017.
Located in 2 repurposed warehouses of the beautiful train station this museum tells the story of the WWII refugees that arrived in Portugal via Vilar Formoso, as a memorial to them and Aristides de Sousa Mendes. It's worth the visit. While there isn't many English information available about it, I'll leave some links:
- www.centerofportugal.com/entity/vilar-formoso-frontier-of-peace-memorial-of-the-refugees-and-the-consul-aristides-de-sousa-mendes/
- mvasm.sapo.pt/EV
- goo.gl/maps/VEDaSCieo4mM8FH59
I had no idea such a man ever lived. The things you learn every day. Hey did you know that their was a Japanese consular official that also issues visas to people fleeing the Nazi's. This man's story might be worth a video. But given how old this one is. The chances that someone from this channel will see my comment is very slim.
A story which deserves to be told
This video also makes me proud of my heritage. I did not know about him. Thank you!
Good one! Obrigado.
yes i do. anyone who stands against evil like that is a hero.
Never heard of him till today. It's a shame.
Nice video! I think you learned to pronounce his name in Brazilian Portuguese. In Portuguese, Mendes doesn't have a "J" sound after the letter D
Thanks for the info!
His life was destroyed due his stand. He and his family. They lost all for others may live.
Viewing this in 2021, never heard of this man. God bless him , Israel should give him a medal.
hearing this story reminds me of how it is to be a jew, i am right now trying to help people arond me and i try to give them hope if they are not having things the way they wish, i feel like thanks to him we can as jews are in great debt to people like him who have sacerficed themselfs for helping others
2:00 it's Coimbra
Oh Aristides the man who save 30k of jews from death
Its Coimbra not Coimbria. One of the oldest universities in europe and deffo the oldest in Portugal. Portuguese pronnounciations were overall questionable even for english pronnounciation of the words hmu if you want me to help you with that given i'm portuguese. Brilliant video nonetheless great work!
No good deed goes unpunished.
Aristides, now remembered.
There was also someone who was Japanese who saved Jews in WW2
Good man he has honor
Wow this a good story
In the end he did a good deed at the cost of everything that was dear to him . Died in poverty and ruin, alone like a dog. And was kept away from everyone as a memory that you are not really sure that happened.
Just to be recognized much later ... By the same people he saved, if not for them no one back home would give a single f....
Portugal still has a lot to learn from men like Aristides.
This my friends is Portugal in a nutshell.
Its like a curse.
English people always say the portuguese names like they were spanish
To be fair we Aussie
I mean, they do their best not knowing both of the languages man
I know right! Its completely different
@@RubenFloppy ik, im just saying, not attacking
@@TheFront Yes ik, but u know what i mean right?
Just a note. It is Coimbra and not Coimbria. :) Great content.
Man was a hero yo
Make more and thanks for mention my family home country
Can you look at Canada like vimy ridge cause I feel like no body talks about that
We usually stick to WWII content but perhaps!
No, I didn't know of him and yes he dose deserve that name, even more than Oscar Shinler, because he join the Nasis Party to get ahead.
Had Schindler not joined the Nazi Party or the Abwehr, he wouldn't have been able to save a single Jew, never mind 1,200. His position as a factory owner demanded membership in the party, and protected his Jewish workers only with his Abwehr connections. I'm curious how he could have done so without these affiliations. No other person is like Schindler as no other German used their own wealth and status as he did.
Nice
You should do a story on the Smoking Snakes from the Brazilian Expeditionary Force
The comparison to Oskar Schindler is wrong. Schindler is in a class by himself, namely as the only German who used his connections and personal wealth to protect those destined for death. This is the first I've learned of Sousa Mendes, but he is in a league with diplomats like Raoul Wallenberg, Feng Shan Ho, and as mentioned below Folke Bernadotte and Carlos Sampaio Garrido, who went against their government's wishes to grant passports to fleeing Jews, and nearly all of whom were later punished or murdered.
God will always lift up those that honour him, thank you Israel for recognizing him.
There. Was also a Mexican Schindler and a Nazi Schindler in china when the Japanese Imperial Army committed genocide.
Respect to those brave people that stood against genocide!
You talking about John Rabe in China?
Ay my man you forget about the Mexican schindler Gilberto Bosque's Saldivars he was an Mexican ambassador to France he saved my Jewish lifes Please make a video of me it be a glorious video to watch
Their were more than a handful of these type of men. I seem to recall a Japanese diplomat in Russia. He ruined his career by moving jews into Russia and then east. I suppose at least he lived to tell the tale, the Russians killed Wallenberg and to this day no one knows why.
What is this intro music tho? Seriously what’s the name of the music.
I'm not Portuguese but mad repsect.
People also forget about Bulgaria and how many helped save both Jews and non Jews
Hollywood, never eard of him.
Do a video on the Filipino Contribution to the war at some point. No one really talks about the brutal occupation or the Filipino Militias that formed.
Will you make a video on the fighting in the Middle East? Or maybe something about Saudi Arabia or Iran during WWII?
if you want to learn more about the ARVN or the Vietnam war from the republic's viewpoint you can check out: ua-cam.com/users/lucfilmsvideos
The channel is in Vietnamese so you might want to ask anyone who can speak Vietnamese to translate for you. Love your work by the way, keep up the good work !
What do the intro sing called ?
Intro music?
But unfortunately the political police killed him
sou brasileiro k
What this man did was a hint of what Jesus did for all of mankind...
Iman of Paris?
Papers please
"He was unfaithful to his wife" Yup... Sounds pretty Portuguese to me LMFAO
You sound alot like geetslys
He is Geetslys.
Its coimbra not coimbria 🤣🤣
Why "the portuguese Schindler"?
More Schindler "the german Sousa Mendes"!!!
By the way: Schindler could rescue 1200 persons, Sousa Mendes more than 10.000!
And Sousa Mendes acted some years before Schindler, who was also a party member, where Sousa Mendes was in no party and was a monarchist
Good video, bad nick name
Divine will? I think it was probably just chance. You know, something that's actually real.
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