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Giorgio Perlasca
1910 – August 15, 1992
Italian self-appointed Spanish diplomat in Hungary who saved 5218 Jews from the Holocaust (1910-1992)
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Giorgio Perlasca was an Italian businessman. Although he was originally a fascist, he saved 5,500 to 8,300 Jews from deportation in Budapest in 1944/45 as a disguised Spanish ambassador.
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- Anniversary · August 15
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