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Jewish Community of Oporto

The attraction of crowds of teenagers to visit the Holocaust museum in Porto is something unique in Europe.

The film reveals the incredible circumstances in which the "Portuguese Dreyfus" Captain Barros Basto built the largest synagogue in the Iberian Peninsula.

Community reserves more documents about the applicant and the people who created the "scandal" and why.

Anyone who walks through the streets of Porto could not imagine that in the middle of Rua Guerra de Junqueiro is the largest Synagogue in the Iberian Peninsula, the Kadoorie – Mekor Haim Synagogue.

As many as 4,000 Jews were brutally murdered in the Lisbon massacre between April 19 and 21, 1506.

The trailer for a movie about the pogrom was released on Dec 28.