Ángel Sanz Briz
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Ángel Sanz-Briz was a Spanish diplomat and humanitarian. Sanz-Briz is credited with saving more than 5,200 Jews in German-occupied Hungary from the Holocaust in the later stages of World War II.
Ángel Sanz Briz 1969
Memorial in Zaragoza, Spain
Ángel Sanz Briz memorial in Madrid. In this house lived the ambassador of Spain, Ángel Sanz Briz, who saved thousands of human beings from the Holocaust in Budapest in 1944.
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Giorgio Perlasca
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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 deportatio
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…a unit of Francisco Franco's army created in 1937 and commanded by General Juan Yagüe. Unknowingly, Sanz was part of the same side of the Italian Giorgio Perlasca, who would be his main partner during World War II in Budapest. On 1 April 1937, almost a year after the start of the Civil War, he was fired by the…
Photo of Giorgio Perlasca
Perlasca bust in Budapest
Perlasca bust in Padova
Stele dedicated to Giorgio Perlasca at Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem.