Confidential telegram nº 79 from the Portuguese Legation in Budapest to the MNE communicating that the Papal Nuncio informed he had handed in to the Hungarian Government “with absolutely no result, two notes of protest against inhuman persecution of Jews”.
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Allied Landing in Normandy|7 Jun. 1944 |437 000 Hungarian Jews sent to Auschwitz. Only 250 000 Jews left in Budapest, plus the men in labor battalions and the converted trying to escape deportation|8 Jun. 1944 | Official note communicating that Portugal will suspend all supplies of wolfram to the belligerent parties
21 Jun. 1944
Personal telegram from the Secretary General of the MNE to the Portuguese Minister in Bern requesting him to tell Minister Sampaio Garrido that the Portuguese Charge d’affaires in Budapest has instructions to protect and facilitate in so far as possible the departure of the refugees in the Legation in Hungary.
(AHD – Cipher, Collection of Telegrams to Bern)
21 Jun. 1944
Personal telegram from the Portuguese Minister in Bern conveying the following telegram from Sampaio Garrido to the Secretary General of the MNE: “I appeal to your kindness requesting issue of consular passports refugees Legation who have necessary means for upkeep in Portugal. Warm regards”.
(AHD – Cipher, Collection of Telegrams from Bern)
20 Jun. 1944
Telegram nº 31 from the MNE to the Portuguese Legation in Budapest: “our guideline continues to be to save people who for reasons of political persecution took refuge in Portuguese Legation… [If] at all possible obtain departure refugees with group Argentine mission I authorize issue of collective or individual consular passports to enter Portugal, without nevertheless attributing Portuguese nationality in such documents”.
(AHD – R.N.P., 2º P., A. 49, M 112)
19 Jun. 1944
Telegram nº 73 from the Portuguese Legation in Budapest to the MNE on the possibility of some of the refugees under the protection of the Legation leaving as part of scheduled evacuation of the Argentine mission pondering on the convenience of granting passports “with the exclusive aim of helping refugees leave Hungary, validity of passports expiring validity on arrival in Portugal”.
(AHD – Cipher, Collection of Telegrams from Budapest)
16 Jun. 1944
Confidential telegram nº 69 from the Portuguese Legation Budapest to the MNE informing of the worsening situation of the Jewish persecution, in particular in the countryside and of the inhuman way Jews are deported to Germany.
(AHD – Cipher, Collection of Telegrams from Budapest)
15 Jun. 1944
Telegram nº 29 from the MNE to the Portuguese Legation in Budapest authorizing the concession of asylum to Jewish refugees in the Legation house in Galgagyoerk, and ordering a full list of refugees, nationality and quality to be sent by telegram to the MNE.