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==Decorations and honors== {{Righteous Among the Nations}} [[File:StelePerlascaYadVashem.jpg|thumb|Stele dedicated to Giorgio Perlasca at [[Yad Vashem#Museum|Yad Vashem Museum]] in [[Jerusalem]].]] *In 1987 Perlasca was made an [[honorary citizen]] of Israel and was honored by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum with a [[stele]] and a 10,000 tree forest.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/22/obituaries/giorgio-perlasca-82-helped-jews-flee-nazis.html|title=Giorgio Perlasca, 82; Helped Jews Flee Nazis|newspaper=The New York Times|date=22 August 1992}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.jpost.com/Green-Israel/People-and-The-Environment/Perlasca-Forest-Remembering-the-Righteous-of-the-Nations|title=Perlasca Forest: Remembering the Righteous of the Nations|website=The Jerusalem Post}}</ref> *Perlasca was designated by Yad Vashem as [[Righteous Among the Nations]] in 1989 *Star of Merit, Hungary, 1989 *Knesset Medal, Israel, 1989 * Town Seal of Padova, Italy, 1989 *[[Wallenberg Medal]], United States, 1990 *Medal of Remembrance of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, USA, 1990 *Invitation to lay the first stone of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, USA, 1990 *[[Order of Isabella the Catholic|Knight Grand Cross]], Spain, 1991 *1st Class, [[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic|Knight Grand Cross]] (Italy), 1991 *Gold Medal for Civil Bravery (Italy), 1992 *A bust of Perlasca was created in Budapest.<ref name="APAV">{{cite web |work=jhungary.com |title=Giorgio Perlasca (1910–1992) |location=[[Budapest]], Hungary |url=http://jhungary.com/Giorgio_Perlasca |access-date=25 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110619004125/http://jhungary.com/Giorgio_Perlasca |archive-date=19 June 2011}}</ref> * As part of its Righteous Among the Nations project, the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra commissioned an original orchestral piece, "His Finest Hour", from composer Moshe Zorman in tribute to Perlasca. The piece premiered 10 December 2014 in Raanana in the presence of Perlasca's son Franco and daughter-in-law Luciana Amadia.<ref name="Times of Israel">{{cite news |url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-orchestra-honors-italian-who-saved-5000-jews-from-nazis/ |title=Israeli orchestra honors Italian who saved 5,000 Jews from Nazis|website=The Times of Israel}}</ref> ===Places=== * Inside Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Garden (Dohàny street 2) * Giorgio Perlasca Kereskedelmi, Vendéglátóipari Szakközépiskola és Szakiskola (Giorgio Perlasca Highschool) ===Movies=== * ''[[Perlasca – Un eroe Italiano]]'' (2005) * ''[[El ángel de Budapest]]'' ===Songs=== * Sandy Cash: ''Giorgio Perlasca''<ref>{{cite AV media |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/fwSlS6B6ssY |archive-date=5 December 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5HUE-yr6rA |title=Sandy Cash: Giorgio ("Jorje") Perlasca |via=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> * David Ben Reuven: ''The Rescuers''<ref>{{cite AV media |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/uv5Lv2dvr5w |archive-date=16 February 2024 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv5Lv2dvr5w |title=David Ben Reuven: The Rescuer |via=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> ===Stamps=== * Italian stamp of 2010 * Israeli stamp of 1998 ===Books=== * Silvia del Francia & Luca Cognolato, ''L'eroe invisible'', {{ISBN|978-958-30-6345-9}} * Giorgio Perlasca, ''L'impostore'', 2007, Il Mulino. {{ISBN|9788815060891}} (Perlasca's memorial, published posthumously) * Enrico Deaglio, ''La banalità del bene. Storia di Giorgio Perlasca'', 1991, Feltrinelli. {{ISBN|9788807070242}}
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