Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa
Aracy Moebius de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa (born December 5, 1908 in Rio Negro , Paraná ; † March 3, 2011 in São Paulo ) was a Brazilian diplomat and " Righteous Among the Nations ".
Life
De Carvalho, the daughter of a German and a Brazilian, was a multilingual employee of the Itamaraty, Brazil's foreign ministry. From 1936 she worked in the Brazilian consulate in Hamburg , where she was appointed head of the passport department. During the November pogroms she began actively helping Jews in Germany by issuing Brazilian visas against the prohibition of the then President Getúlio Vargas and the consul Joaquim António de Sousa Ribeiro. In doing so, de Carvalho, against the instructions of her superiors, omitted the respective passports with a red J, the identification symbol for Jews. Through underground contacts, she also manages to issue passports outside the Brazilian consulate.
In 1938 she met the diplomat, doctor and writer João Guimarães Rosa at the consulate in Hamburg , who supported her in her underground activities. Both later married. De Carvalho stayed in Hamburg until the breakup of German-Brazilian relations in 1942 and later joined the Allied forces.
For her work in the rescue of thousands of Jews, de Carvalho was honored on July 8, 1982 as Righteous Among the Nations . She is also one of the recipients of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa on the website of Yad Vashem (English)
- ↑ a b c Aracy Moebius de Carvalho: Justa entre as nações , The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation , accessed on February 26, 2013
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Rosa, Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian Righteous Among the Nations |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rio Negro , Paraná |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 2011 |
| Place of death | São Paulo |