Melamerson

Visa Recipient

  • MELAMERSON, Ernest A
    Age 26 or 28

About the Individual

Ernest MELAMERSON was imprisoned in the Cours du Médoc internment camp in Bordeaux, France in June 1940. The entire camp requested and received visas from Aristides de Sousa Mendes.

He crossed into Portugal, where he resided in Porto. He traveled from Lisbon to New York on the vessel Quanza in August 1940.

Artifacts
  • Artifacts
Cours du Medoc page 1

Partial list of internees at Cours du Médoc camp in Bordeaux requesting visas from Aristides de Sousa Mendes

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Letter sent to Ernest MELAMERSON in Portugal and then forwarded, front

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Letter sent to Ernest MELAMERSON in Portugal and then forwarded, back