22K views · 995 reactions | In Portugal, March 31 commemorates the victims of the Inquisition, coinciding with the date in 1821 when the Inquisition officially ended - after more than 300 years. Spain and Portugal were both major centres of Jewish life in medieval Europe. But the Inquisition in 1492 and then 1497 led to the expulsion of Jews from the Iberian Peninsula, creating a mass migration of people and forever changing Jewish history. | World Jewish Congress | Facebook

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