Frank/Lovett
Visa Recipients
- FRANK, Jean-Michel P A
Age 45 | Visa #2526 - LOVETT, William Thaddeus P A
Age 26 | Visa #2486
About the Family
These visas were issued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Bordeaux on June 20, 1940.
Jean-Michel FRANK was a French designer and cousin of diarist Anne FRANK. He crossed into Portugal, where he resided in Lisbon. He traveled from Lisbon to Argentina, and subsequently sailed from Brazil to New York in December 1940. William (Thad) LOVETT, a US citizen, crossed into Portugal and sailed from Lisbon to New York on the vessel Manhattan in July 1940.
Jean-Michel FRANK and Thad LOVETT are known to have spent time in Portugal with their contemporaries, Salvador DALI and Elsa SCHIAPARELLI.
- Photos
- Artifacts
Letter from Jean-Michel FRANK to Antonio FERRO, Chief of Propaganda in Portugal, recto
Letter from Jean-Michel FRANK to Antonio FERRO, Chief of Propaganda in Portugal, verso
Page of Sousa Mendes Visa Registry Book listing this family and others - Courtesy of the 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