"The Jews in Portugal" booklet issued by the Tourism Information Dept.
Lisbon, Portugal with the support of TAP Air Portugal. Free copies are
available from The Portuguese Tourist Office, 590 Fifth Ave., New York,
NY 10036, Phone: 212-719-3985/4091. Fax: 212-764-6137. Source: http://www.isjm.org/country/portugal.htm [October 2000]
Isaac Bitton papers, letters, articles, photographs, scrapbook,
brochures. escription: 2-in. folders. Notes: Majority of the material
was placed in mylar sleeves by the USHMM collections department.
Consist of materials concerning the situation of Portuguese Jews during
and after the Holocaust. Among the topics covered are emigration to
Palestine, the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, and The Nahariya
memorial to Jewish refugees. Some of the photographs are copies from
the holdings of the Diario de Noticias archives. Materials protected
under copyright. Isaac Bitton is a Portuguese Jew and a refugee of the
Holocaust. Bitton presently resides in Woodstock, Illinois. The USHMM
collections department created inventories. The inventories describe
the collection on the folder level. Isaac Bitton collected the
materials during the years since the Holocaust. They were initially
donated to the USHMM collections department, and later transferred to the archives. Control No.: DCHY237-A [December 2000]
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THE CEMETERIES
EVORA:
In the Museo de Evora at Largo do Conde de Vila Flor is a preserved old
Hebrew-inscribed tombstone and the 14th century cornerstone of the
synagogue. Source: Israelowitz, Oscar. Guide to Jewish Europe. Brooklyn, NY: Israelowitz Publishing, 1995, p. 280. [November 2000]
FARO:
This Algarve town has a medieval 14th century Jewish cemetery and a
second cemetery used from 1838-1932, now preserved by declaration of
"national interest". Of the 106 graves, 71 have tombstones listed in
Jose Maria Abecassis' book Genealogia Hebraica, Lisbon 1991. http://saudades.org/farolist.html
"A Tribute to the Jewish
Cemetery of Faro, Portugal" http://www.commandvideo.com/faro/default.html
LISBON:
Portugal: http://www.multimania.com/shaaretikva has Lisbon Jewish community history.
Sephardic Synagogue: Comunidade Israelita de Lisboa, Rua Alexandre Herculano, 59-Lisbon.
Ashkenazic Synagogue: 110 Rua Elias Garcia, Lisbon
Jewish Community Center is located at 10 Rua Rose Araujo, tel. 7752-83 [June 2000]
Shaaré-Tikvá Synagogue, Rua Alexandre Herculano 59, 1250-010 Lisboa, Portugal: http://www.multimania.com/shaaretikva Moses Anahory founded Guemilut Hassadim in 1892 to provide spiritual aid and Jewish burials. [January 2001] "In
1497, Jews represented one-fifth of Portugal's total population of one
million, 80,000 Jews. 120,000 Jews expelled from Spain arrived in 1492.
In 1497, almost all Jews in Portugal suffered the Inquisition so that
official Judaism ceased to exist in Portugal. All Jewish extant
cemeteries of the time were destroyed. Sefardim from Gibraltar and
Morocco came to Portugal at the beginning of the nineteenth century
with Ashkenazim arriving around 1910. By 1994, the 250 members of
Lisbon Jewish community were both Sephardim and Ashkenazim. Oporto had
a small community of about ten persons in 1984." Source: Freedman,
Warren. World Guide for the Jewish Traveler. NY: E.P. Dutton Inc, 1984.
Almocavar: Destroyed following the Expulsion about
1497, King Manuel the First built All-Saints Hospital (later destroyed
by an earthquake) with Jewish cemetery of Lisbon tombstones.
British Cemetery: Active 1804-1848, a list of the Jewish graves can be found in Jose Maria Abecassis', Genealogia Hebraica, Lisbon 1991.
Calcada das Lages (formerly) "Jewish Cemetery": Avenida
D.Afonso III. Dating from 1869, information on this still active
cemetery can be obtained from Ms. Anita Bekerman- Comunidade Israelita
de Lisboa, Rua Alexandre Herculano, 59-Lisbon.
Cemetario Israelita: On Avenida Alphonse III. "A stone
wall hides the site with no visible markings on its wooden gate beyond
which are terraced rows of man-sized horizontal tombstones." Source:
Freedman, Warren. World Guide for the Jewish Traveler. NY: E.P. Dutton Inc, 1984.
Rua Nova da Estrela: (1815-1869): 151 graves include
five transferred in 1949 from the nearby British cemetery, part of
which was paved for a street.
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