From Porto to Lisbon
Our English-language publication Exiled in Madeira, detailing the final months of the last ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was presented in Portugal with great success.
Portugal
The diplomat who saved Otto von Habsburg’s life—In memory of Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Our Foundation commemorates Aristides de Sousa Mendes, who passed away seventy years ago on 3 April 1954. The Portuguese diplomat, as his country’s Consul General in Bordeaux, was instrumental in 1940 in helping to escape Otto von Habsburg and his family, who were accused of treason and persecuted by Nazi Germany.
Commemoration of Charles IV in Porto
On 6 December 2022, the Embassy of Hungary in Lisbon, in cooperation with the Portuguese Catholic University in Porto, organized a conference on the occasion of the centenary of the death of Blessed Charles IV, where the exhibition ‘Life and Memory’, compiled by the Otto von Habsburg Foundation, was presented.
Our joint exhibition with the Madeira Regional Archive
An exhibition organised in collaboration between the Otto von Habsburg Foundation and the Regional Archive and Public Library of Madeira (Arquivo Regional e Biblioteca Pública da Madeira) opened in Funchal on 27 June 2022.
