Carlos Sampaio Garrido

Along with Teixeira Branquinho, (Portuguese Chargé d'Affaires in Budapest in 1944) Garrido rented houses and apartments to shelter and protect refugees from deportation and murder.

[1] On 23 April 1944 and following the German occupation of Hungary, the Portuguese ruler Salazar decided to order his ambassador to return to Lisbon and leave the chargé d'affaires, Teixeira Branquinho in his place.

The Ambassador physically resisted the police and was also arrested but managed to have his guests released by invoking the extraterritorial legal rights of diplomatic legations.

"[7] Gabor's maternal grandmother and uncle Sebastian (Annette Lantos's father) chose to remain in Budapest feeling they "had a good place to hide".

In 2006 the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation honored both Sampayo Garrido and his chargé d'affaires Carlos de Liz-Texeira Branquinho.

Carlos Sampaio Garrido
Commemorative plaque to Carlos Sampaio Garrido, Portuguese Ambassador, and Teixeira Branquinho, Chargé d'affaires, in mission to Budapest in 1944 who rescued approximately 1000 Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust. (Budapest, District XIII, Újpesti Quay Nr 5).