Note from the Jews of Budapest addressed to the Portuguese Legation and the other representations of neutral countries, except Turkey, and also to the Committee of the International Red Cross calling attention to the Hungarian program to transfer Jews from Budapest to labor camps.
(Document delivered personally by Teixeira Branquinho, Portuguese Charge d’affaires in Budapest, to the Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry in November 1944)

(AHD – 2º P., A. 49, M 112)

Telegram nº 143 from the Portuguese Legation in Budapest on the differences between the Hungarian and the German authorities regarding persecution of the Jews and the threat of total extermination by the Germans before they retreat from the country “by shooting them if necessary”.

(AHD – Cipher, Collection Telegrams from Budapest)

Telegram nº 138 from the Portuguese Legation in Budapest in which the Charge d’affaires informs that he issued 200 passports without mentioning nationality and requesting permission to issue a further 400 provisional Portuguese passports to about 400 Jewish families

(1 200 people) going to Palestine; the Charge d’affaires highlights: “all protected persons signed undertaking of honor filed in Legation Archives where they acknowledge they have no rights Portuguese nationality and undertake never to invoke said protection from the Portuguese Government to request it”.

(AHD – Cipher, Collection Telegrams from Budapest)