Portuguese Jewish Community Seeks Funding To Preserve Inquisition Records

Portuguese President Rebelo de Sousa (R) accompanied by the exhibition commissar, Professor Pinto (C), and the president of Rede de Judiarias de Portugal Pintos Dias Rocha (L) during his visit to the Jewish exhibition at the National Archive of Torre do Tombo in 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal. The Oporto community first became aware of the decayed state of the records five years ago, when its representatives visited the archive.HORACIO VILLALOBOS-CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES. 

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.