Article: Consulates team up to honor righteous Italian: Holocaust remembrance day to be commemorated Sunday in Cambridge.(NEWS)

The Italian consulate will commemorate the Italian National Holocaust Remembrance Day in Greater Boston for the first time this Sunday. The Cambridge event, co-sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, the Dante Alighieri Society and the Consulate of Israel to New England, will celebrate the life of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian gentile who helped save thousands of Jewish lives during the Holocaust.

Perlasca's story, like those of many righteous gentiles, is not well known among Jews or non-Jews. An Italian citizen and a fascist ideologue, Perlasca put his own life in jeopardy during the years of the Holocaust, posing as an Italian diplomat and smuggling Jews to ...

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