The Forgotten Portuguese Schindler Who SACRIFICED it All to Save the Lives of Many in WW2

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This is the Story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, known as Portugal's Schindler. In this front episode we discuss the Portuguese consular who issued visas and other documents and saved many refugees (including many Jews) from the Germans, allowing them to enter Portugal and even flee Europe via Port Lisbon.
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:19 Aristides de Sousa Mendes
3:00 Portugal's treatment of Jews
4:27 Aristides as General-Consul
5:44 I would rather stand with God and against man
8:26 After the War
10:18 Recognition
11:27 Conclusion

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@llabavi367 3 жыл бұрын

This man deserves a noble prize of peace

@eshaanjain9379 3 жыл бұрын

It's good you focus a lot on the different countries of ww2 rather than just the main countries like America Russia or Germany

@TheFront 3 жыл бұрын

That's what we do here at The Front!

@frankfinnsweenryan 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheFront Do you have a video about "Irish neutrality" in WW2? It's a fascinating subject.

@afonsofernandes4766 3 жыл бұрын

Im portuguese, tanks for your recognition

@Btester2 3 жыл бұрын

Portugal is one of the most underrated nations in the world..

@TheFront 3 жыл бұрын

Portugal has such a beautiful culture! Feijoada all the way!

@koraptd6085 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah tanks

@Camps-qh6ff 3 жыл бұрын

@@Btester2 Yup, it is what it is

@ProducerTiagoMendes 3 жыл бұрын

Finally a man with tast... ;-)

@mike7104 3 жыл бұрын

I am a Canadian of Nova Scotian/Brit ancestry but I live in Toronto's Little Portugal and I was totally unaware of Aristides de Sousa Mendes. That said, I know the quality of Portuguese people and am not surprised a Man as this existed. I'd say the nickname is ok because it makes people understand what a great man he was easy but I am going to remember Aristides for his name. Thank you for sharing this and educating us about a great man!

@lookabomba32 3 жыл бұрын

In our family, the elders constantly talked about a man who stood against Salazar and the Nazi's. How he saved countless Jews and others. Now I know who they were talking about. Makes me proud of my Portuguese heritage 🇵🇹

@azores671 3 жыл бұрын

Im portuguese, no one talks of Portugal except you and I want to thank you for that

@RodolfoGaming 3 жыл бұрын

That is true. At least a brazillian guy called dgp mundo talks about us too i suggest you watch 👍

@BernasLL 3 жыл бұрын

I'm portuguese and this is so not true. Portugal's a hot topic in many sectors.

@RodolfoGaming 3 жыл бұрын

@@BernasLL in english speaking channels on youtube i dont see that. I'm not ingrained that much in portuguese/brazillian channels. The only english channel is a portuguese guy behind general knowledge.

@flipwhale5494 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for finally giving Portuguese more recognition🙏-I’m Portuguese Lol🇵🇹🇵🇹

@TheFront 3 жыл бұрын

Portuguese culture and language is beautiful!

@Camps-qh6ff 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheFront Wanna learn some words friend? i can teach you XD

@fabianzimmermann5495 3 жыл бұрын

The Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz literally saved around 60'000 jews in Hungary during the war and the Swiss government failed to recognise his actions and said, what he was doing, had exceeded his authority and endangered Swiss neutrality. Would be great, if you could make a video about him.

@o.portista 2 жыл бұрын

Glad he's slowly getting known. Era um grande herói 🇵🇹

@DiogoF. 3 жыл бұрын

It is exactly this kind of human and civic courage that the world continues to desperately need. 'Obrigado' for sharing the word.

@wolffburnett5868 3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes are greatest heroes are not found on the battlefield.

@vpowerization 3 жыл бұрын

Aristides was a true hero, and we all need to think why he suffered... Thousands of thieves and corrupted embassy clerks enjoyed much better lives while true heroes like him died alone in poverty. Even today we are responsible to find out why! Why the Portuguese government and society have chosen to punish him .

@rawrzillakira5928 3 жыл бұрын

I'm Portuguese canadian, thanks so much for the lesson!

@danielschein6845 3 жыл бұрын

I never heard of him before today. Thank you for telling his story.

@pedrofernandes3305 3 жыл бұрын

It's very well done your video, not only Jews people he saved, the future french general Lecrelc had also a visa from Aristides . When Portuguese officials came to arrest him he had fled to Bayonne et make visas to everyone that was in railway train to Spain during almost a week our two. Only France make a telefilm about him and his incredible adventure. For me is an honour knowing that, a consul, a official fighting this monstrosity against is own country dictator. Proud to be Portuguese also like me.

@davidalmeida2991 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video! As a Portuguese I thank you for the research and your work in shedding some light into the History of this hero’s life 🙏

@_undefined1744 3 жыл бұрын

Aristides de Sousa Mendes wasn't the "Portuguese Schindler". I think it is more accurate to say that Oskar Schindler was the German "Aristides de Sousa Mendes"

@RodolfoGaming 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@zecanas1 3 жыл бұрын

No. Each one has their own merits, no comparisons. I have not seen anyone here talking about Count Folke Benadotte, i dont wonder why.. (yes, the one who saved a lot more people from concentration camps and later was assassinated by one israeli president). I also have not seen anyone talking about the portuguese banker from CGD in Macau, neither the portuguese consul on Hungary.

@doomsdayrule 3 жыл бұрын

Also, Schindler had something to gain from the help he gave. I went to his factory in Poland and they shit talked him a fair bit.

@pedroasg9384 3 жыл бұрын

We ( Portuguese) don't make movie out our deeds , our marketing department isn't at the level of the Germans ...I guess we has a people just need to know that we did ... and don't need the attention ...

@Alex-pj8nz 3 жыл бұрын

Not as famous as the Shanghai Getto.

@MrCordycep 3 жыл бұрын

He would be closer to Sugihara Chiune. He also wrote thousands of visas and was condemned by his own government eventually dying in obscurity.

@shanemize3775 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, mate! This was yet another topic that was new to me. I don't know how you come up with them, but I'm glad that you do! What a brave man he was in such a horrible and dangerous time. It says so much about him that, not only his children, but so many others fought so long to get his name cleared and get him recognized for his courageous actions to save so many lives during WWII. God bless his memory. Please keep the outstanding videos coming and God bless you, my friend!

@unitybeing777 3 жыл бұрын

Obrigado Aristides.

@hildegrade777 3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad that he was honored and remembered as among The Righteous of Nations, these Gentiles who saved the Jews during the Second World War. This man's life should have a movie. Thanks for featuring him. I learned more from your channel than from all those World History classes I attended in school.

@MegaSreis 2 жыл бұрын

There is a movie and also Aristides was very recently subject to a special honour by the Portuguese State: an inscription was put in the National Pantheon. The movie kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ftuSpbKGtbCreJc.html

@antonionoronha2601 3 жыл бұрын

Love your vids. You should do one about António De Oliveira Salazar

@TheFront 3 жыл бұрын

Great suggestion!

@ha-meemfirozezaman1417 3 жыл бұрын

Saw Schindler's List a long time ago.Thanks for mentioning this unknown story.

@saggybones 3 жыл бұрын

Seems like Portugal is getting a lot of recognition today with videos from both The Front & Kings and Generals

@RichardAHolt 3 жыл бұрын

Instead of Schindler, it would be more apt to compare Mendes to other diplomats, such as Raoul Wallenberg (Swedish) or Chiune Sugihara (Japanese), who as Schindler, made the moral decision to save Jewish refugees and others at the the risk of their careers, reputations or lives.

@sirmeowthelibrarycat 3 жыл бұрын

🤔 Hello. I am pleased to find another admirer of the Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara. Unlike the Nazis, the Japanese had no negative views concerning Jews. In Japan the Nazi attitude towards certain peoples was incomprehensible. Yet they assumed high superiority towards other Asian people. Inscrutability to the extreme, it would seem.

@brett4264 3 жыл бұрын

Never heard of this, thanks.

@TheFront 3 жыл бұрын

Glad we could bring this story to your attention!

@johnryder1713 3 жыл бұрын

Been looking forward to the video on this heroic man, Schindler gets a Hollywood movie, he gets a vid on a small but great history channel!

@marthaellis4808 3 жыл бұрын

Have never heard this story!! God Bless him!! Thank you for sharing!!

@MollyMoller 3 жыл бұрын

This man right here just teached me of a random person helping alot of people in world war 2, i am so angry that i couldn't even help them a single bits of money because i haven't even borned yet.

@lorenzodimaio6672 3 жыл бұрын

You should also look at Giorgio Perlasca, a former fascist who helped saving 8.000 Hungarian Jews by giving them false cards as Spanish citizens. I recommend you to read his story.

@miguelferreira4004 3 жыл бұрын

Good one! Obrigado.

@ludgeromartins1423 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely..he helped a lot of people GOD Bless Him 🙏

@attamans 3 жыл бұрын

The man is a legend!

@daverocha6484 9 ай бұрын

This video also makes me proud of my heritage. I did not know about him. Thank you!

@brokenbridge6316 3 жыл бұрын

I had no idea such a man ever lived. The things you learn every day. Hey did you know that their was a Japanese consular official that also issues visas to people fleeing the Nazi's. This man's story might be worth a video. But given how old this one is. The chances that someone from this channel will see my comment is very slim.

@FCC46 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video! I think you learned to pronounce his name in Brazilian Portuguese. In Portuguese, Mendes doesn't have a "J" sound after the letter D

@TheFront 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info!

@BoredHistoryTeacher 3 жыл бұрын

A story which deserves to be told

@nandinhocunha440 3 жыл бұрын

I must say "PORTUGAL CARALHO"

@Camps-qh6ff 3 жыл бұрын

ur are a true son of Portugal caralho

@AP.16. 3 жыл бұрын

AH POIS CARAGO

@TheRuivar 3 жыл бұрын

PORTUGAL CARALHO

@brwigames7498 2 жыл бұрын

🇧🇷🤝🇵🇹

@anttails 3 жыл бұрын

Curious facts: Aristedes' home, Casa do Passal in Cabanas do Viritato, was recently restored after decades of total abandonment and degradation. His home was here: goo.gl/maps/fV699ysZdYCPFaBCA In Vilar Formoso, one of Portugal's main borders with Spain, stands the "Vilar Formoso - Fronteira da Paz" museum, opened in 2017. Located in 2 repurposed warehouses of the beautiful train station this museum tells the story of the WWII refugees that arrived in Portugal via Vilar Formoso, as a memorial to them and Aristides de Sousa Mendes. It's worth the visit. While there isn't many English information available about it, I'll leave some links: - www.centerofportugal.com/entity/vilar-formoso-frontier-of-peace-memorial-of-the-refugees-and-the-consul-aristides-de-sousa-mendes/ - mvasm.sapo.pt/EV - goo.gl/maps/VEDaSCieo4mM8FH59

@davidyunghans3569 3 жыл бұрын

‘I’d rather fight God against man than man against God’ what a man!

@JstJaybeingJay 2 жыл бұрын

That's not what he said... He said "I would rather STAND WITH GOD and against MAN than with man and AGAINST GOD". Sounds bit religious to me.... And complete opposite of what you said.

@zacharyrivera566 3 жыл бұрын

I bet he's in Heaven.

@alexm7627 3 жыл бұрын

No ammount of good deeds can get you to heaven, its only by faith in Christ

@clintstewart5545 3 жыл бұрын

@@alexm7627 lol, the muslims say otherwise

@alexm7627 3 жыл бұрын

@@clintstewart5545 unfortunately

@alexm7627 3 жыл бұрын

@@Duck-wc9de what if i told you, there's no good deed we can do that will get us to heaven except for one thing, faith in Christ (btw i dont want to discredit the man's sacrifice because its very honourable)

@abraham7414 3 жыл бұрын

Not just Christ but God. Oh wait an atheist will attack me by chance

@thecanadianmystic 3 жыл бұрын

yes i do. anyone who stands against evil like that is a hero.

@gupyb4165 3 жыл бұрын

Never heard of him till today. It's a shame.

@mattdaley544 3 жыл бұрын

Wow this a good story

@TheUberMarshalYT 3 жыл бұрын

What is this intro music tho? Seriously what’s the name of the music.

@Organic.Mechanic 3 жыл бұрын

No good deed goes unpunished.

@spitfire7482 3 жыл бұрын

2:00 it's Coimbra

@hermanosoares3860 2 жыл бұрын

Nice

@RodolfoGaming 3 жыл бұрын

Its Coimbra not Coimbria. One of the oldest universities in europe and deffo the oldest in Portugal. Portuguese pronnounciations were overall questionable even for english pronnounciation of the words hmu if you want me to help you with that given i'm portuguese. Brilliant video nonetheless great work!

@luislealsantos 3 жыл бұрын

His life was destroyed due his stand. He and his family. They lost all for others may live.

@rmachadoptr 3 жыл бұрын

Just a note. It is Coimbra and not Coimbria. :) Great content.

@avifrankel983 3 жыл бұрын

hearing this story reminds me of how it is to be a jew, i am right now trying to help people arond me and i try to give them hope if they are not having things the way they wish, i feel like thanks to him we can as jews are in great debt to people like him who have sacerficed themselfs for helping others

@repentancenow Жыл бұрын

Aristides, now remembered.

@geckogames3509 3 жыл бұрын

Make more and thanks for mention my family home country

@ludwigpersson7223 3 жыл бұрын

What do the intro sing called ?

@bulouvusonawalowalo1711 3 жыл бұрын

Viewing this in 2021, never heard of this man. God bless him , Israel should give him a medal.

@brandonbaltaian7561 3 жыл бұрын

Intro music?

@SlightPainter 3 жыл бұрын

Can you look at Canada like vimy ridge cause I feel like no body talks about that

@TheFront 3 жыл бұрын

We usually stick to WWII content but perhaps!

@nether322 3 жыл бұрын

Good man he has honor

@spear8492 3 жыл бұрын

In the end he did a good deed at the cost of everything that was dear to him . Died in poverty and ruin, alone like a dog. And was kept away from everyone as a memory that you are not really sure that happened. Just to be recognized much later ... By the same people he saved, if not for them no one back home would give a single f.... Portugal still has a lot to learn from men like Aristides. This my friends is Portugal in a nutshell. Its like a curse.

@nunopereira265 3 жыл бұрын

Oh Aristides the man who save 30k of jews from death

@joshbautista6892 3 жыл бұрын

Man was a hero yo

@jackbartholomaus6510 3 жыл бұрын

There was also someone who was Japanese who saved Jews in WW2

@lauritorni4879 3 жыл бұрын

You should do a story on the Smoking Snakes from the Brazilian Expeditionary Force

@domino_201 3 жыл бұрын

Will you make a video on the fighting in the Middle East? Or maybe something about Saudi Arabia or Iran during WWII?

@Camps-qh6ff 3 жыл бұрын

English people always say the portuguese names like they were spanish

@TheFront 3 жыл бұрын

To be fair we Aussie

@RubenFloppy 3 жыл бұрын

I mean, they do their best not knowing both of the languages man

@RodolfoGaming 3 жыл бұрын

I know right! Its completely different

@Camps-qh6ff 3 жыл бұрын

@@RubenFloppy ik, im just saying, not attacking

@Camps-qh6ff 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheFront Yes ik, but u know what i mean right?

@chrissilsby4312 3 жыл бұрын

No, I didn't know of him and yes he dose deserve that name, even more than Oscar Shinler, because he join the Nasis Party to get ahead.

@dk50b 3 жыл бұрын

Had Schindler not joined the Nazi Party or the Abwehr, he wouldn't have been able to save a single Jew, never mind 1,200. His position as a factory owner demanded membership in the party, and protected his Jewish workers only with his Abwehr connections. I'm curious how he could have done so without these affiliations. No other person is like Schindler as no other German used their own wealth and status as he did.

@dk50b 3 жыл бұрын

The comparison to Oskar Schindler is wrong. Schindler is in a class by himself, namely as the only German who used his connections and personal wealth to protect those destined for death. This is the first I've learned of Sousa Mendes, but he is in a league with diplomats like Raoul Wallenberg, Feng Shan Ho, and as mentioned below Folke Bernadotte and Carlos Sampaio Garrido, who went against their government's wishes to grant passports to fleeing Jews, and nearly all of whom were later punished or murdered.

@wkent02 3 жыл бұрын

Do a video on the Filipino Contribution to the war at some point. No one really talks about the brutal occupation or the Filipino Militias that formed.

@jonathanescalante4611 3 жыл бұрын

Ay my man you forget about the Mexican schindler Gilberto Bosque's Saldivars he was an Mexican ambassador to France he saved my Jewish lifes Please make a video of me it be a glorious video to watch

@j_x5058 3 жыл бұрын

if you want to learn more about the ARVN or the Vietnam war from the republic's viewpoint you can check out: kzfaq.infovideos The channel is in Vietnamese so you might want to ask anyone who can speak Vietnamese to translate for you. Love your work by the way, keep up the good work !

@gamegator1048 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not Portuguese but mad repsect.

@RERM001 3 жыл бұрын

There. Was also a Mexican Schindler and a Nazi Schindler in china when the Japanese Imperial Army committed genocide.

@TheFront 3 жыл бұрын

Respect to those brave people that stood against genocide!

@hershellumiere 3 жыл бұрын

You talking about John Rabe in China?

@Saidsopmac 3 жыл бұрын

Hollywood, never eard of him.

@leary4 3 жыл бұрын

Their were more than a handful of these type of men. I seem to recall a Japanese diplomat in Russia. He ruined his career by moving jews into Russia and then east. I suppose at least he lived to tell the tale, the Russians killed Wallenberg and to this day no one knows why.

@douglaschappa4330 3 жыл бұрын

Iman of Paris?

@bulouvusonawalowalo1711 3 жыл бұрын

God will always lift up those that honour him, thank you Israel for recognizing him.

@Bullminator 3 жыл бұрын

Papers please

@jzzisk 2 жыл бұрын

People also forget about Bulgaria and how many helped save both Jews and non Jews

@mrcarneiro5464 3 жыл бұрын

sou brasileiro k

@killbill-tf9wu 3 жыл бұрын

"He was unfaithful to his wife" Yup... Sounds pretty Portuguese to me LMFAO

@nunopereira265 3 жыл бұрын

But unfortunately the political police killed him

@ic3125 3 жыл бұрын

You sound alot like geetslys

@Nicky-bv9xk 3 жыл бұрын

He is Geetslys.

@pedrocunha9147 3 жыл бұрын

Good video, bad nick name

@Anthony05171998 3 жыл бұрын

I love the videos but I think you'd be way more popular if you didn't just read everything like a fact sheet and tried to make things more fun

@alexm7627 3 жыл бұрын

What this man did was a hint of what Jesus did for all of mankind...

@Rotebuehl1 9 ай бұрын

Why "the portuguese Schindler"? More Schindler "the german Sousa Mendes"!!! By the way: Schindler could rescue 1200 persons, Sousa Mendes more than 10.000! And Sousa Mendes acted some years before Schindler, who was also a party member, where Sousa Mendes was in no party and was a monarchist