Article: Giorgio Perlasca. (wins medal for saving Jews from the Holocaust) (People)

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U.S. News & World Report
Article date:
September 17, 1990
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GIORGIO PERLASCA, who saved as many as 5,000 Hungarian Jews from the Nazis, is the first winner of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council's highest honor, the Medal of Remembrance. In 1944 and 1945, Perlasca, a Catholic, worked for the neutral Spanish legation in Budapest, taking responsibility for Jews who were ...

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