Giorgio Perlasca

Giorgio Perlasca
Born	(1910-01-31)31 January 1910 Como, Italy
Died	15 August 1992(1992-08-15) (aged 82) Padua, Italy
Occupation(s)	Businessman, diplomat
Known for	Saving 5,218 Jews from deportation during the Holocaust
Awards	Righteous Among the Nations (1989) Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1991)

Giorgio Perlasca (31 January 1910 – 15 August 1992) was an Italian businessman and former Fascist who, with the collaboration of official diplomats, posed as the Spanish consul-general to Hungary in the winter of 1944, and saved 5,218 Jews from deportation to Nazi extermination camps in eastern Europe. In 1989, Perlasca was designated by Israel as a Righteous Among the Nations.