The Porto Jewish community also operates a Holocaust Museum, which was opened in December 2020 and has already been visited by some 150,000 teenagers from schools in Portugal.
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Among the exhibits at the site are a reproduction of sleeping cells from the Auschwitz death camp, artifacts and documents that belonged to survivors who fled the Nazis to Porto.
The film shows how the community was shaken by the news that there were descendants of Jews in Portuguese villages who still practiced Jewish rituals mixed with Catholicism, known as Marranos.
The community has released an extensive and detailed report showing the evidence that the Portuguese government concocted a scandal where there was none.
As many as 4,000 Jews were brutally murdered in the Lisbon massacre between April 19 and 21, 1506.
Over the past decade, a community of roughly 1,000 Jews has materialized in Porto, thanks to a law that since 2015 has allowed the return of people whose ancestors were expelled.
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