A documentary about a Brazilian Righteous Gentile will be produced in Brazil.
Titled “Good to Brazil,” the expression that was written on Brazilian entrance visas, the film will feature the life of Luis Martins de Souza Dantas, the Brazilian ambassador to Paris who saved some 800 people from the Holocaust during World War II by giving them illegal diplomatic visas, including 425 Jews.
Based on the book “Quixote in the Darkness” by historian Fabio Koifman, the film will focus on Dantas’ deeds during the Nazi occupation in France and Brazil’s President Getulio Vargas’ orders that forbade visas to “Semites and other undesirables.” Dantas was nominated as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 2003. — jta