10 May 1944

Telegram nº 49 from the Portuguese Legation in Budapest with information about the “12 persons lodged in Legation house Galgagyoerk are all Catholic although some of Jewish extraction. Of these people who have taken refuge on account of air raids and political persecution are one member Hungarian High Chamber, one Hungarian Minister Plenipotentiary, one nephew Hungarian Minister in Japan and one sister-in-law Baron Rothschild from London. You should know that other Legations neutral countries are proceeding in like fashion”.

(AHD – Cipher, Collection of Telegrams from Budapest)
In documents: Sampaio Garrido e Teixeira Branquinho
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