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
Photo of Giorgio Perlasca
Perlasca bust in Budapest
Perlasca bust in Padova
Stele dedicated to Giorgio Perlasca at Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem.
Raoul Wallenberg
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Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian. He saved thousands of Jews in German-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from German Nazis and Hungarian fascists d
Giorgio Perlasca
…Perlasca rescued two boys from being herded onto a freight train in defiance of a German lieutenant colonel on the scene. The Swedish diplomat-rescuer Raoul Wallenberg, also present there, later told Perlasca that the officer who had challenged him was Adolf Eichmann. Over 45 days, from 1 December 1944 to 16 January…
Passport photo from June 1944
Former location of the summer villa where Wallenberg was born in 1912 (pictured in 2009)
Wallenberg as a youth
Bronze statue of Raoul Wallenberg in Tel Aviv