Giovanni Palatucci: il poliziotto che salvò migliaia di ebrei

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Laurus Robuffo, 2002 - Biography & Autobiography - 155 pages
The lawyer Giovanni Palatucci, born in 1909, became in 1937 the Police Commissioner of the city of Fiume. In 1939, in opposition to the discriminatory policy of Mussolini, he started to help many Jewish refugees from central Europe who could not leave Italy and find asylum in other countries. From 1941 he also helped refugees from Croatia, escaping the antisemitic Ustasa regime. He provided the refugees with documents and transferred most of them to the Campagna region, where his uncle, Bishop Giussepe Maria Palatucci, interceded with authorities in order to obtain for the refugees residence and internment permits. With the Nazi invasion of Northern Italy in September 1943, Palatucci destroyed all the information about Jews at the police headquarters of Fiume; he also issued false documents to Jews who needed them and helped them find hiding places. In August 1944, when the Nazis raided the city, they did not find any Jews or records about them. In September Palatucci was arrested by the Nazis and deported to Dachau, where he perished.

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Linfanzia e la giovinezza
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Il primo periodo fiumano
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Lattivazione del canale verso Campagna
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