Giorgio Perlasca
Businessman
Giorgio Perlasca was an Italian businessman and former Fascist who, with the collaboration of official diplomats, posed as the Spanish consul-general to Hungary in the winter of 1944, and saved 5,218 Jews from deportation to Nazi extermination... Wikipedia
Born: January 31, 1910, Como, Italy
Died: August 15, 1992 (age 82 years), Padua, Italy
Known for: Saving 5,218 Jews from deportation during the Holocaust
Movies: Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man and Perlasca
Awards: Righteous Among the Nations (1989) and Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1991)
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