Pedro Nuno de Sousa Mendes, who helped his Portuguese diplomat father save Jews during the Holocaust, died at age 85. Pedro’s father, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portugese consul in Bordeaux, France, issued visas to endangered Jews against the orders of Portuguese dictator Antonio Salazar.
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