It is worth watching the film "Sefarad" (2019) that the Jewish community of Oporto dedicated to Captain Barros Basto. One of the most prominent figures in the documentary film was his loyal friend, Paul Goodman, then the general secretary of the International Portuguese Marrano Committee.
Both did much more than erect a monumental synagogue and give an official stamp to the Ashkenazi Jewish community that lived in the city. With Goodman's help, Basto was also able to create numerous communities of Marranos in remote cities and villages and founded the Jewish Theological Institute of Porto for the education of children. The dismissal of Barros Basto from the army succeeded in hastening the total assimilation and destruction of those communities he had founded for the Marranos, with the exception of the community of Belmonte. It was not his fault, nor Goodman's, but the fault of the Portuguese State, which colluded with criminals to try to destroy a very beautiful work.
The cultural regeneration work that the Jewish community of Porto has produced in the last 15 years, making it the most complete in Europe in this matter, has not forgotten the name of Paul Goodman. In 2019, his grandson was in Oporto to fulfil a wish his grandfather had expressed in writing more than eight decades earlier: the inauguration of the Paul Goodman Room, on the upper floor of the synagogue. Representatives of Jewish communities from every continent attended the event.
