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Article: A MOST UNLIKELY HERO : A Fascist who saved Jews.(Giorgio Prelasca)
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- Commonweal
- Article date:
- December 3, 1999
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December 1944. A bitter cold day in Budapest. A tall handsome man in a dignified but tattered suit, his eyes alert and searching, is peering down the loading dock as long lines of men, women, and children are being pushed toward waiting freight cars by German soldiers and Hungarian police. Behind the man is a black Buick sedan with a Spanish flag flying from its aerial.
Suddenly the man rushes forward, grabs two young boys by the collar, drags them back down the platform, and throws them into the back seat of his car. A German soldier runs over and pulls his revolver, gesturing to the man to put the boys back in line. The man refuses. "This car is foreign ...
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Article: Man who saved Hungarian Jews, largely unknown, is ...
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... ... work of Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz. Giorgio Perlasca, on the other hand, is almost unknown. Perlasca, who was Italian, is credited with sheltering ... 1945. His story is now told in the film "Perlasca, An Italian Hero,"which will screen ...
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