“Saved Lives” exhibition inaugurated at the Parliament highlights courage and moral responsibility.
13 February, 2026
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Colloquium brought together academics, diplomats, and descendants of survivors to reflect on the rescue of Jews in Portugal during the Holocaust.
Oren Rozenblat highlighted the “eternal debt” of the Jewish people to the Portuguese diplomat who saved around 30,000 Jews during the Holocaust.
The Embassy of Israel in Portugal publicly thanked the Lisbon City Council for the tribute: “May we remember the past and renew our promise never to forget.”
Generations after the end of the Shoah, antisemitism is worryingly on the rise, in Portugal and beyond.
The initiative forms part of the cultural diplomacy mission of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and marks the beginning of a structured program of memory diplomacy in Portugal.
