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Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man

The real story of Giorgio Perlasca (Luca Zingaretti). During the 1920s he was an Italian Fascist supporter, fighting in Africa and in the Spanish Civil War where he received safe conduct credentials for Spanish embassies. After some years, disillusioned by fascism, he became a supplier for the Italian army. During the war, he was in business in Budapest. He lived an easy life there, well introduced into the Hungarian high society, without any problems being caused by the war.

Escape to Safety

When the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944, he escaped to the Spanish embassy in Budapest using his old safe conduct credential and becoming a Spanish citizen, changing his name to Jorge Perlasca. He started working as a diplomat there. When Sanz Briz (Geza Tordy), the Spanish consul, was removed, Perlasca immediately substituted him, as if he was officially appointed by Spanish authorities. All the Germans and the Hungarian authorities believed him.

Heroic Actions

In his new fake assignment, he immediately started to hide, shield, and feed thousands of Jews by issuing fake Spanish safe conducts for the Jews of Sephardic origin. He was in contact with Raoul Wallenberg, another hero of that time. Together with other volunteers, they ran incredible risks to save thousands of Hungarian Jews from a tragic death. Perlasca even managed to save two boys directly from the hands of Adolf Eichmann at the train station.

This hero, after the war, was completely forgotten, and his story only came to light in the 1980s when some of the Hungarian Jews wanted to meet him again.

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