Another True Hero
For the Roman Wanderer(-ess), I provide an Italian tidbit for you all. The ADL honored an Italian police chief for saving Jews during the Holocaust. Posthumously they presented the League's Courage to Care Award to Giovanni Palatucci, who saved the lives of thousands of Jews marked for Nazi death camps. How? He provided them with forged documents and visas.
In 1944, he was accused of conspiracy and deported to Dachau, where he died at age 36 shortly before the camp was liberated.
What an amazing, brave soul.
posted by Esther @ 10:07 AM
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5 Comments:
Really cool to see him recognized in the US
(for example, has anything been done here for Giorgio Perlasca?)
sounds like Chiune Sugihara, but Sugihara didn't forge documents, he ignored higher orders to hand out visas
http://www.remember.org/imagine/sugihara.html
brave, amazing characters
True hero.
And no happy ending.
Sad.
I thought that his heroism was made into a movie? This is all I was able to find ...
I believe that there are many stories such as this that have been lost to the passage of time. Death, loss of memory and other sequential events may have robbed "us" from knowing about them? Political concerns may have also allowed them to be removed from common memory ...
Be safe!
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