Lapinere

Visa Recipients

  • LAPINERE, Elias A
    Age 36 | Visa #1749 and 1812
  • LAPINERE, Elisabeth A
    Age 36 | Visa #1748 and 1811

About the Family

The LAPINERE couple received visas from Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Bordeaux on June 16 and June 17, 1940.

They crossed into Portugal and subsequently sailed on the Exeter from Lisbon to New York in July 1940.

Elias LAPINERE was a film executive, working for MGM in France.

  • Artifacts
1733-70

Page of Sousa Mendes Visa Registry Book listing this family and others - Courtesy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs archives, Lisbon

1806-41

Page of Sousa Mendes Visa Registry Book listing this family and others - Courtesy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs archives, Lisbon