Meyerhoff. chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Councila recognition that was most deserved and long overdue. Giorgio Perlasca is an Italian businessman who found himself in Budapest in 1944. He was what was happening to the Jews of Hungary. and he refused to be a bystander. At grave personal risk. Perlasea was personally responsible for saving thousands of Hungarian Jews destined for certain death. During the spring and summer of 1944. hundreds of thousands of Jews were being deported from Hungary to Auschwitz/Birkenau where ten thousand were being murdered daily. Giorgio Perlasca undertook a bold and daring mission. Without diplomatic credentials or standing.
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