"As Portugal's consul in Bordeaux, Aristides de Sousa Mendes faced a moral dilemma. Should he obey government orders or listen to his own conscience and supply Jews with the visas that would allow them to escape from advancing German forces? ... But his initiative also spelt the end of a diplomatic career under Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, and the rest of his life was spent in penury."

Sounds exactly like Chiune Sugihara's story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_Sugihara

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/04/chiune-sugihar...