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4. Do you know what he do?
During the 1920s, supported fascism and fought in East Africa during the
invasion of Ethiopia.
He also fought in the Spanish Civil War in integrated Corpo Truppe Volontarie,
where he received a pass to the Spanish diplomatic missions of Francisco
Franco.
However, fascism became disillusioned because of the alliance with Nazism and
anti-Semitism.
During World War II, Perlasca worked obtaining supplies for the Italian Army
in the Balkans.
Miguel Primo de Rivera in 1924 for Jews of Sephardic origin laissez-passer
Sanz-Briz as he had been doing.
When Mussolini fell in July 1943, all Italians in Hungary were requested to
return home. Perlasca refused to go to a German-ruled Italian puppet state. As
Perlasca said: "I was neither a fascist nor an anti-fascist, but I was anti-Nazi."
Perlasca was interned.
5. When the Nazis occupied Hungary in March 1944, instead of retiring along with
other diplomats took refuge in the Spanish embassy in Budapest, becoming
immediately in Spanish citizen with Jorge Perlasca as a veteran of the Spanish civil
war.
Between November 1944 and January 1945, Perlasca worked with Raoul
Wallenberg from Sweden; Friedrich Born, from the International Red Cross; and
Angelo Rotta, from the Vatican; in issuing protective passes. It is estimated that
Giorgio Perlasca saved approximately 3,500 Hungarian Jews.
Perlasca was active hiding, covering and feeding thousands of Jews in Budapest and
law-based issuing of right to Spanish citizenship approved. Sanz Briz was moved to
Switzerland on November 1944, and the Hungarian Government of the Nazis ordered
the evacuation of the building of the Spanish embassy buildings where Jews sought
refuge.
In January 1945 the Soviets took the Hungarian capital, Perlasca managed to
disappear, reaching Italy after a hazardous journey.
6. Next?
He worked with Ángel Sanz Briz ambassador and other diplomats from
neutral to remove illegally Jewish states in the country.
Perlasca immediately gave the false announcement that Sanz Briz was
about to return from a short absence and that he had appointed consul of
Spain.
Dr. Hugo Dukesz, one of the Jews saved by Giorgio Perlasca, wrote a
letter to him.
7. In Life received numerous decorations from the governments of Italy, Hungary and
Spain and was considered by Israel as Righteous Among the Nations.
Giorgio Perlasca returned to Padua, Italy, and died in August 1992.
When he arrived in Italy, Perlasca kept secret his amazing adventure for over 30
years until a group of women in a Jewish community in Hungary began tracking
the Spanish diplomat who had saved their lives.
He was a man who cares about the people and he doesn’t like the way the Nazis
treat them. He understand that it doesn’t matter if you are from another religion we
all are human beings and that is what he matters, he just want to protect the Jews
and to put them save on a place.