Janiszewski/Minoga/Schaffer
Visa Recipients
- JANISZEWSKA A
- JANISZEWSKA, Chaya née MINOGA P A
Age 62 - JANISZEWSKI, Peisach P A
Age 30 - MINOGA, Adam P A
Age 41 - MINOGA, Chaya Hela née BIEN P A
Age 41 - MINOGA, Maria P A
Age 17 - MINOGA, Zofia Charlotte P A
Age 15 - SCHAFFER, Ida née JANISZEWSKI A
Age 31
About the Family
The JANISZEWSKI and MINOGA families were explicitly denied visas by Salazar, the Portuguese head of state, in a telegram to Aristides de Sousa Mendes dated June 21, 1940. Nonetheless, they were able to reach Portugal, most likely because Sousa Mendes granted the needed transit visas.
Peisach JANISZEWSKI obtained an immigration visa to Brazil issued in Lisbon in September 1940. He traveled on the ship Angola, arriving in Brazil on September 19, 1940.
Peisach's sister Ida SCHAFFER and their cousins the MINOGA family escaped Nazi-occupied Europe via Marseille and traveled to Brazil on the vessel Cuyaba in October of 1940.
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Telegram from Salazar denying visas to this family and others - Courtesy of the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs archives, Lisbon