Thursday, February 14, 2019

GEORGIO PERLASCA, Jewish resustance, pencil sketch by Dr k Prabhakar rao


GEORGIO. PERLASCA...Jewish resistance, WW II
Giorgio Perlasca (Como 31 January 1910 – Padua 15 August 1992) was an Italian businessman and former fascist who, with the collaboration of official diplomats, posed as the Spanish consul-general to Hungary in the winter of 1944, and saved 5,218 Jews from deportation to Nazi Germany death camps in eastern Europe.
According to Perlasca, he also prevented the execution of a plan to blow up the Budapest ghetto with around 60,000 peop...
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