(January 13, 2017) Giorgio Perlasca during an interview with Giovanni Minoli in 1990 for Mixer: “I want young people to take an interest in my story to simply think about what could happen and to be able to stand up against these types of violence in addition to also thinking about what has happened”. On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and in collaboration with Fleg Center, the Italian Cultural Institute of Marseille hosts a talk with Franco Perlasca, Giorgio Perlasca’s son, followed by the screening of the film “Perlasca: An Italian hero” by Alberto Negrin based on Enrico Deaglio’s book “La banalità del bene” (The Banality of Good). The film is about Giorgio Perlasca, a merchant from Padua, considered to be the Italian “Shindler”. Perlasca was a common man who strongly believed in Fascism to the extent that he left everything behind to go and support Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War. But he soon began to distance himself from the ideology; the monstrosities of those years such as racial laws and the persecution of the Jews put him in front of a reality that was impossible to ignore. It was in 1943 in Budapest that he became a hero. He posed as an Honorary Spanish Consul, saving the lives of over five thousand Hungarian Jews destined for concentration camps and certain death. The talk with his son Franco, is scheduled for Thursday, January 26 at 18:30. (Red)
Giorgio Perlasca, reflections on an Italian hero, Provence
