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Plaque at Lisbon Port commemorates ‘S.S. Serpa Pinto,’ which brought thousands to safety
Portuguese officials and representatives of Lisbon’s Jewish community unveiled a plaque on Nov. 21 commemorating the legacy of the S.S. Serpa Pinto, the ship that carried thousands of Jewish refugees across the Atlantic and out of Nazi-occupied Europe dur...
1578
In 1578, a Portuguese army led by King Sebastian I joined forces with the deposed Moroccan Sultan Abdallah Mohammed, who desired to regain the throne from his uncle, Abd al-Malik. Victory of the Portuguese king would inevitably lead to the infamous Inquis...
The ship that carried the Rebbe to safety
Neutral Portugal seemed like an oasis, far away from bloody battlefields, curfews and air-raid sirens.
1940-1945
The Rebbe lost several family members at the hands of the Nazis, including a brother, grandmother, sister-in-law and several cousins.
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