Giorgio Perlasca
✶January 31, 1910
†August 15, 1992
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✶January 31, 1910
†August 15, 1992
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Giorgio Perlasca was an Italian businessman. With the collaboration of official diplomats, he posed as the Spanish consul-general to Hungary in the winter of 1944, and saved 5,218 Jews from deportation to Nazi extermination camps in eastern Europe. In 1989, Perlasca was designated by Israel as a Righteous Among the Nations.
Italian self-appointed Spanish diplomat in Hungary who saved 5218 Jews from the Holocaust (1910-1992)
Biography from the article Giorgio Perlasca on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.