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by Gregory Conti,Enrico Deaglio

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Gregory Conti,Enrico Deaglio

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University of Notre Dame Press; 1st edition (May 28, 1998)

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In this incredible true story, Enrico Deaglio dramatically recountsthe courageous efforts of Giorgio Perlasca . In a story reminiscent of Schindler's List, Perlasca's diary details his heroic efforts to protect these Jews at risk of his life.

In this incredible true story, Enrico Deaglio dramatically recountsthe courageous efforts of Giorgio Perlasca, wh. When diplomatic ties between Spain and Hungary became strained, the Spanish ambassador departed for home, making an offer of escape to his Italian staff member. Perlasca, making the rounds of the safe houses, decided he could not leave the Hungarian Jews unprotected.

Enrico Deaglio, Gregory Conti. In this incredible true story, Enrico Deaglio dramatically recountsthe courageous efforts of Giorgio Perlasca, who, by posing as a Spanishconsul, saved the lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews in World War II. This deeply moving story went unrecognized for nearly half a century until some of the people whom Perlasca had saved, tracked him down and brought this forgotten hero of the Holocaust to the attention of the world. Now Perlasca's thrilling story is told for the first time in English with Gregory Conti's new translation.

I just finished this book tonight. The Banality Of Goodness: The Story of Giorgio Perlasca (The Erma Konya Kess Lives of the Just and Virtuous). It is a short but solid read about Giorgio Perlasca, the Spanish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in Budapest in 1944. The Spanish diplomat, who was neither Spanish nor a diplomat. He was an Italian businessman who was in the right place at the right time, to do something right.

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Giorgio Perlasca (Como 31 January 1910 – Padua 15 August 1992) was an Italian businessman and former fascist who, with the collaboration of official diplomats.

Giorgio Perlasca (Como 31 January 1910 – Padua 15 August 1992) was an Italian businessman and former fascist who, with the collaboration of official diplomats, posed as the Spanish consul-general to Hungary in the winter of 1944, and saved 5,218 Jews from deportation to Nazi extermination camps in eastern Europe. Giorgio Perlasca was born in Como and grew up in Maserà, province of Padua, Italy.

The Banality of Goodness : The Story of Giorgio Perlasca. This true story recounts the efforts of Giorgio Perlasca, who, by posing as a Spanish consul, saved the lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews in World War II. Perlasca risked his life by issuing false documents, maintaining eight refugee houses and salvaging people awaiting deportation.

Once Giorgio Perlasca's story came to light, people from all corners of the . Enrico Deaglio wrote about Perlasca's activities in La Banalità del bene (The Banality of Goodness, translated into English by Gregory Conti).

Once Giorgio Perlasca's story came to light, people from all corners of the world were speaking his name. Between 1989 and 1992, heads of state, associations, and citizens from several countries honored Perlasca for his courageous and selfless work, for the 5,000 lives he saved - and their children and grandchildren. Mordecai Paldiel included a chapter on Perlasca in Saving the Jews: Amazing Stories of Men and Women Who Defied the "Final Solution.

Perlasca has been designated by the State of Israel as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.

Giorgio Perlasca was born in Como and grew up in Maserà, province of Padua. During the 1920s, he became a supporter of Fascism, fighting for Italy in East Africa during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, and in the Spanish Civil War (Corpo Truppe Volontari). The book was adapted as a made-for-TV film, Perlasca – Un eroe Italiano (2005), by the RAI national television corporation. Perlasca has been designated by the State of Israel as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.

Perlasca finds the Italian cattle-trader (Zingaretti) living the high life in Budapest in late 1944, clandestinely . Screenplay by Stefano Rulli, Sandro Patraglia from the book "The Banality of Goodness" by Enrico Deaglio.

Perlasca finds the Italian cattle-trader (Zingaretti) living the high life in Budapest in late 1944, clandestinely seeking forged papers to escape back to Italy.

Fog

Compelling story beautifully and dramatically narrated.

Shalizel

What a great but heart and gut wrenching story. I like heroes. Especially from Workd War II. To think we are just 70 years ago from this story is really amazing and should never be forgotten.

terostr

Il testo di Deaglio, scritto assai bene perchè agile e di piacevole lettura senza essere affatto romanzato, ha una pluralità di pregi, dei quali è naturalmente in parte debitore alla straordinaria vicenda che racconta ed allo spessore morale del protagonista: dal punto di vista storico ricostruisce l'impegno di un italiano (per di più sinceramente fascista) che - come altri, ma non tanti come ci piacerebbe pensare - ha concretamente agito per aiutare e salvare un gran numero di ebrei (nel caso di specie, ungheresi); si tratta di una vicenda stranamente poco conosciuta proprio in Italia, dove spesso ci si compiace di minimizzare l'antisemitismo degli anni '30 e '40, ma - non a caso - si esita ad indicare con precisione cosa è riuscito a fare chi, come Perlasca, ha messo la propria vita e la propria intelligenza al servizio della difesa degli ebrei, non limitandosi alla contemplazione dei propri pacifici sentimenti, per poi lasciare che la Storia li offendesse impunemente. Questa considerazione ci sposta sull'altro pregio del libro, che è quello di un semplice ma fondamentale insegnamento: è nel momento in cui la scelta morale ha senso che bisogna compierla, accettandone i rischi. Perlasca, lo racconta lui stesso in un breve dialogo con Deaglio risalente a poco prima della sua morte e riportato nel libro, non nutriva particolari sentimenti a favore degli ebrei nè era mai stato una persona che ponesse i principi al di sopra della vita: era nella vita, che solo così rimaneva la sua vita, che non intendeva avallare l'orribile strage, ed era nella vita che ha creato lo spazio per operare con semplicità (ma con grandissimo coraggio) contro lo sterminio, sfruttando alcune circostanze favorevoli (i pregressi rapporti commerciali con la Spagna, ad es., e la sua conoscenza dello spagnolo assieme alla fuga dell'ambasciatore iberico da Budapest) e una personale capacità di iniziativa che verosimilmente ne avrebbero fatto un uomo capace e determinato in qualunque campo. Qui è Rodi è qui devi saltare! venne detto all'atleta che si vantava di saper compiere balzi prodigiosi, ma solo quando era nell'isoletta. Qui è la croce del presente, commentava Hegel la storiella; questa croce Perlasca sembra essersela laicamente addossata senza alcuna remora e senza particolari travagli intellettuali. "Cosa avrebbe fatto lei al mio posto?", chiede una volta a Deaglio, quasi a dimenticare che la risposta è nei milioni di tedeschi, italiani, polacchi, ungheresi ecc., che in verità non hanno fatto proprio nulla e hanno lasciato che il genocidio si compisse. Questa semplicità di Perlasca - il non poter fare altrimenti che così, per poter continuare a vivere con se stessi - è giustamente sottolineata da Deaglio nel titolo del libro che ovviamente risponde a quello con cui Hannah Harendt ha reso memorabile il proprio resoconto del processo ad Eichmann. In quel processo tutti coloro che venivano chiamati a rispondere dei propri comportamenti ne sottolineavano, appunto, la "banalità", quasi che la macchina dello sterminio sarebbe potuta funzionare senza tanti gesti e adesioni di per sè non straordinari. Deaglio accetta la "sfida" dei testimoni/complici del processo Eichmann, per mostrare con efficacia che agire per il bene anzichè per il male non necessariamente avrebbe richiesto comportamenti eccezionali. Ma in cuor nostro sappiamo che di uomini come Perlasca non ce ne sono mai stati molti, e gli siamo grati della speranza di saper essere, se fosse necessario, "banali" come lui.

Dozilkree

(...) why much well agile and of pleasant reading without at all
romanzato, pluralità of pregi has one, of which he is naturally in part debtor to the extraordinary
vicissitude that it tells and the moral thickness of the protagonist: from the historical point of view it reconstructs the engagement of an
Italian (for more sincerely fascist) that - like others, but many as it would appeal to to think to us - do not have concretely
churn in order to help and to save a great number of Hebrew (in the
species case, Hungarians); draft of one strangely little known vicissitude just in Italy, where often it is felt sorry to us to diminish the anti-semitism of
years ' 30 and ' 40, but - not to case - it is hesitated to indicate with precision what is
successful to make who, like Perlasca, it has put the own life and own intelligence to the service of the
defense of the Hebrew, not limiting to the contemplation of the own pacific feelings, in order then to leave that the History offended them impunemente. This consideration moves to us on the other pregio of the book, that it is that one of a simple but fundamental instruction: it is in the moment in which the moral choice it has sense that must
complete it, accepting of the risks. Perlasca, it in a short dialogue with going back before its dead women and
brought back Deaglio tells little same in the book, it did not nourish particular feelings to favor of the Hebrew neither
never had been a person who placed the principles to of over of the
life: it was in the life, that therefore it only remained its life, that it did not mean to guarantee the orribile massacre, and it was in the life that has created the space in order to operate
with semplicità (but with greatest courage) against the
extermination, taking advantage of some favorable circumstances (the pregressi
relationships trade them with Spain, to es., and its acquaintance of the Spanish together to the escape of the
Iberian ambassador from Budapest) and one personal ability to
initiative that verosimilmente of it would have made an able and
determined man in any field. Here it is Rodi is here you must jump! it came said the athlete that it was boasted to know to complete
prodigiosi leaps, but only when it was in the isoletta. Here it is the cross of the present, Hegel commented the storiella; this Perlasca cross seems is lay leaned it without some impediment and
particular intellectual sufferings. "What would have made she my place?", it asks Deaglio once, nearly to forget that the answer is in the million Germans, Italians, Poles, Hungarians etc, that in truth they have not made just null and they have left that the
genocidio compisse. This semplicità of Perlasca - not to be able to make otherwise that
therefore, for being able to continue living with if same - just it of the book
is emphasized from Deaglio in the title that obviously answers to that
one with which Hannah Harendt it has rendered just the report of the
process to Eichmann memorable. In that process all those who came call to you to answer of the own
behaviors emphasized some, exactly, the "triviality", nearly that the machine of the extermination could work without many
gestures and adhesions of for himself not extraordinary. Deaglio chip ax the "challenge" of the witnessesaccomplices of the Eichmann process, in order to show with effectiveness that to act for the good anzichè
for the evil not necessarily would have demanded exceptional
behaviors. But in cuor ours we know that of men as Perlasca ce never has not been
many, and it we are grates of the hope to know to be, if it were necessary, "banal" like he.

Dibei

An Italian, a convinced Fascist yet belonging to the supreme race of the Spirit that works wonders across boundaries, a Good Virtuous Man who took the faults of the world on his shoulders and acted out of shear respect for the human being regardless of the iniquitous concept of biological race!

Moswyn

There is nothing to suggest that Georgio Perlasca would be a hero. He was simply a person who refused to let the evil around him to triumph. Perlasca is an example to all of us who pretend that the suffering of others is none of our business or that we are to powerless to change the world. Inspiring as well as thought provoking.

Still In Mind

I'm Italian but I never knew anything'bout Giorgio Perlasca and his story. I was amazed in realising that a non politician but a simple man was able to help so much the Jews, while many powerful people and politicians not even tried. Great book. Great person. He deserved to be more famous than he acrtually have been

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