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Giorgio Perlasca
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.
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business · Italian businessman (1910–1992) · civil servant · philanthropist · economist · businessperson · also Giorgio Perlasca, Perlasca
Born 31 January 1910 · Died 15 August 1992 · Q162651
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2026· 2 entries
Ansa: L'Istituto di cultura di Madrid omaggia Giorgio Perlasca
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2025· 3 entries
Il Gazzettino: Giorgio Perlasca, pietre d'inciampo per ricordarlo. La commemorazione con il figlio: «Diamo uguale attenzione a ogni guerra»
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Rai News: Maserà di Padova omaggia Giorgio Perlasca, l'uomo che salvò migliaia di ebrei
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Il Resto del Carlino: Giorgio Perlasca salvò al vita a migliaia di ebrei: "Mio padre, un Giusto, esempio per tutti"
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2023· 1 entry
Il Mattino: «Sulle Orme di Giorgio Perlasca»: l'incontro con gli studenti
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2021· 2 entries
SBS: Giorgio Perlasca, "un eroe silenzioso"
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Il Messaggero: L'APPUNTAMENTO GUBBIO La storia di Giorgio Perlasca ha lasciato il segno e alle
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2018· 1 entry
Corriere: Varese, rubata la targa dedicata a Giorgio Perlasca. Il sindaco: matrice neofascista
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2017· 1 entry
RomaToday: Talenti: al liceo Orazio "L'esempio di Giorgio Perlasca"
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1992· 1 entry
Died 1992-08-15.
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1989· 2 entries
Perlasca was awarded by the Hungarian parliament in its plenary session with the highest national honour
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Perlasca was designated by Israel as a Righteous Among the Nations
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Righteous Among the Nations (1988).
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1987· 2 entries
A group of Hungarian Jews whom Perlasca had saved finally found him after searching for him for 42 years in Spain
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Perlasca was made an honorary citizen of Israel and was honoured by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum with a stele and a 10,000-tree forest
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1980· 1 entry
Did Perlasca's family learn of the memorandum he drafted, after Perlasca had a stroke, when he decided to talk about it to his closest relatives, but he continued to keep it private once he recovered
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1961· 1 entry
On the occasion of the media clamor around the Eichmann trial, did il Resto del Carlino newspaper publish a first article by Giuseppe Cerato that told Perlasca's story, without resonance; the same happened with an articl
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1946· 1 entry
And then contributed to spreading his name, omitted to tell Perlasca's story in his Black Book, presumably for political reasons
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1944· 1 entry
Career landmark: ambassador of Spain to Hungary (1944).
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1930· 1 entry
A fact the Hungarian authorities were not aware of
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1910· 1 entry
Born 1910-01-31.
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