Diplomat who saved Jews gains recognition
Photo credit: Heather Walsh | Olivia Mattis of Greenlawn is a co-founder of the Sousa Mendes foundation. (Nov. 26, 2012)
Diplomat who saved Jews gains recognition
As a girl growing up in Scarsdale, Olivia Mattis heard her grandmother speak often and with passion about how a Portuguese diplomat saved their family after Hitler invaded Belgium in 1940.
Mattis' father, Daniel, was 7 years old when he and his parents, Joseph and Lucie Matuzewitz, and his 17-year-old sister, Blanche, narrowly escaped the bombing of Brussels as German troops advanced. Daniel's...
