Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man

tv show

poster for Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man

2 total episodes

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1 seasons

First Aired January 28, 2002

Overview

The true story of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian cattle dealer and avowed fascist who — trapped in Nazi-occupied Budapest after Italy's armistice with the Allies — nevertheless saved more than 5,000 Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust through a combination of lies, bribery and derring-do.