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(JNS) — The Jewish Community of Oporto recently announced it is working to preserve the 17th-century records of the Portuguese Inquisition. Under a protocol signed in 2019 between the Torre do Tombo National Archive in Lisbon and the Oporto Jewish Community, the latter undertook to pay for the preservation of 16th-century Inquisition case records. The […]
The city's community called for help in saving the unique documentation.The post Oporto’s Jews to preserve Portugal’s crumbling Inquisition records appeared first on JNS.org.
With over a mile of shelf space, the archive is crammed with documents obsessively detailing the horrors of the past, but shortage of donations for conservation and digitalization means this treasure documenting the history of the Jewish people is currently threatened with extinction