Honor for Portuguese diplomat who saved 10,000 Jews in Holocaust

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Lisbon is to erect a statue honoring Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguse diplomat who rescued 10,000 Jews during the Holocaust.
Mendes is credited with saving 30,000 people, including 10,000 Jews, when as a consul in France in 1940 he issued visas to those fleeing the advancing Nazi army, JTA said.
He died in 1954 and was posthumously recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum.
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