Editing Giorgio Perlasca (section)

{{short description|Italian businessman (1910–1992)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Giorgio Perlasca
| image              = Photo of Giorgio Perlasca.jpg
| caption            = 
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1910|01|31|df=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Como, Italy|Como]], Italy
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1992|08|15|1910|01|31|df=y}}
| death_place        = [[Padua]], Italy
| occupation         = Businessman, diplomat
| known_for          = Saving 5,218 Jews from deportation during the Holocaust
| awards             = {{Unbulleted list
|[[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. With the collaboration of official diplomats, he posed as the Spanish [[Consul (representative)|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]].