Giorgio Perlasca
✓ Source-basedfallingItalian self-appointed Spanish diplomat in Hungary who saved 5218 Jews from the Holocaust (1910-1992)
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.
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Carlos ChagasAlso won Order of Isabella the Catholic
Ivan Yefimovich PetrovAlso won Hungarian Order of MeritAbout this person
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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