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The Jewish Archive (Archivo Judaico) was the name given to a collection of documents compiled by the regime of Francisco Franco in Spain during the Second World War. In accordance with instructions of the Directorate of General Security ( Dirección General de Seguridad , DGS) the provincial governors of Spain assembled records of all Jews who ...
During the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), synagogues were closed and post-war worship was kept in private homes. Jewish public life resumed in 1947 with the arrival of Jews from Europe and North Africa. In the first years of World War II, "Laws regulating their admittance were written and mostly ignored."
Public Jewish religious services, like Protestant services, had been forbidden since the Civil War. [3] José Finat y Escrivá de Romaní, the Director of Security, ordered a list of Jews and foreigners in Spain to be compiled in May 1941. The same year, Jewish status was marked on Spanish identity papers for the first time. [3] [4]
Throughout World War II, Spanish diplomats of the Franco government extended their protection to Eastern European Jews, especially in Hungary. Jews claiming Spanish ancestry were provided with Spanish documentation without being required to prove their case and either left for Spain or survived the war with the help of their new legal status in ...
Enrique Múgica Herzog (1932–), lawyer, politician and co-founder of Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, half-Jewish. [64] [65] Romeo Niram (1974–), figurative painter. Eduardo Propper de Callejón (1895–1972), diplomat remembered for facilitating escape of tens of thousands of Jews from France, half Jewish. [citation needed]
Jewish surnames are thought to be of comparatively recent origin; [1]: 190 the first known Jewish family names date to the Middle Ages, in the 10th and 11th centuries. [ 2 ] Jews have some of the largest varieties of surnames among any ethnic group, owing to the geographically diverse Jewish diaspora , as well as cultural assimilation and the ...
Pages in category "Spanish-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,073 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Ángel Sanz-Briz (28 September 1910 – 11 June 1980) was a Spanish diplomat and humanitarian. Sanz - Briz is credited with saving more than 5,200 Jews in German-occupied Hungary from the Holocaust in the later stages of World War II. [1] [2] For his actions, Sanz-Briz has been referred to as "the Angel of Budapest" and the "Spanish Schindler ...