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However, after World War II, immigration policy changed, following the trend emerging from the United States to restrict the entry of foreigners, especially the elderly and disabled, under the argument that it was essential to promote the \"eugenics of our people and the health of our people.\" The government adopted a nationalist policy of control, resulting in an authoritarian system rife with ethnic, religious, and cultural prejudices, allowing some of its high-ranking officials to become veritable \"gatekeepers of the country.\" Koifmann, in this extensively documented and exemplary work, brings to light what happened in Brazil during the Vargas dictatorship, revealing details about the dark nature of the Estado Novo.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159439327484,"sku":"9788520010266","price":84.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/80a1bcef6f512aa46b7798f5867bfae5_5bf9a121-f2d3-470f-beaa-5a9510908984.jpg?v=1778312610"},{"product_id":"quixote-nas-trevas","title":"QUIXOTE IN THE DARKNESS","description":"I remember that, not being here at the consulate, I found myself forced, without wasting a minute, to assume consular duties to literally save human lives, due to the greatest catastrophe humanity has ever suffered. I did what I would have done, with the nobility of the Brazilian soul, the coldest of them, moved by the most basic feelings of Christian piety. Souza Dantas QUIXOTE IN THE DARKNESS: AMBASSADOR SOUZA DANTAS AND THE REFUGEES FROM NAZISM, by Rio de Janeiro historian Fábio Koifman, tells the life of Brazilian ambassador Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas, who headed the Brazilian delegation in France for 20 years—some of which were spent during World War II and the Holocaust. Moved by what he later called a feeling of Christian piety, Souza Dantas simultaneously defied the Third Reich and Getúlio Vargas's foreign policy guidelines to help Jews, communists, and homosexuals who were victims of the Nazism spreading across Europe. The book contains a previously unpublished list of all the people saved by Souza Dantas while working at the Brazilian embassy in Paris. There are approximately eight hundred names, including 425 Jews, whom Dantas helped escape extermination. Among those saved by the diplomat are theater director Zbignew Ziembinski and one of the organizers of the first Rock in Rio, Oscar Oreinstein. The names were meticulously researched on the passenger lists of ships arriving in Brazil. Fábio then compiled a list of thousands of potential visa holders for the ambassador and then cross-referenced the documents with others found in the Itamaraty archives. Souza Dantas risked his position—and his own life—by securing Brazilian entry visas for Jews persecuted by Hitler's troops in Europe. This fact, unknown even to most of Dantas's compatriots, was the subject of Koifman's master's thesis and the basis for the ambassador's award process by the Holocaust Museum in Israel. Souza Dantas met the three conditions to become Righteous Among the Nations, an honor that recognizes non-Jews who saved Jews during the war: risking their position and social standing, risking their own lives, and, in fact, saving people. QUIXOTE IN THE DARKNESS: AMBASSADOR SOUZA DANTAS AND THE REFUGEES FROM NAZISM corrects a historiographical error—after saving more than 400 people, his exploits are not found in school textbooks—and follows Souza Dantas's journey through the underworld of international politics in search of solutions to the fate of so many people. In three years of research, Koifman discovered that Dantas did more than just issue visas. The ambassador often obtained travel documents through friends in other diplomatic missions, such as the consuls in Cádiz, Spain, and Casablanca, Morocco. In QUIXOTE IN THE DARKNESS: AMBASSADOR SOUZA DANTAS AND THE REFUGEES FROM NAZISM, Koifman shows that to be saved, the refugee simply needed to contact Dantas. Those who managed to speak with the Brazilian were saved. Among them were people of all kinds: some with relatives in Brazil, others with absolutely nothing. Some collaborated with Koifman, providing testimonies for the thesis that gave rise to the book. In total, there were 55 interviews with over 30 hours of recordings. The author also consulted nearly 8,000 documents, which he compared with other sources, found in various Brazilian public archives, such as the archives of the Ministry of Justice and Internal Affairs. The result is one of the most important works written about the Holocaust and the Estado Novo.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174820069628,"sku":"9788501063038","price":79.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/562c965ba110d5d5bdc6d8921eb903e3.jpg?v=1778323855"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/fabio-koifman.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}