A new book sheds light on the man known as the “Brazilian Schindler.” “Quixote in the Darkness,” by historian Fabio Koifman, describes how Luis Martins de Souza Dantas saved some 425 Jews from the Holocaust by granting them diplomatic visas to enter Brazil.
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