Names of Some True Heroes of the Holocaust

Aristedes
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The "Angel of Bordeaux":
Aristedes Mendes,
Portuguese Ambassador to France During The War.


Forbidden by his government to issue visas to Jews;
he issued 10,000 visas in Bordeaux before being recalled to Portugal. There he was stripped of his rank and ostracized; in 1954 he died in a pauper's hospital.

Spiro


Sipro Denkov
Righteous Among The Nation
1919-1996


Born in Sofia, Bulgaria. certificate of Righteous Among The Nation at: 1/8/89. He saved 28 men from working camp in Bulgaria. He transported them from Bulgaria through Romania (Danube river) to Israel. Most of his life lived at Jaffa , Israel was married to Regina Denkov until he passed away.