The Anti-Defamation League honored an Italian police chief with its annual award for World War II rescuers of Jews. At a dinner Wednesday in New York City, Italy’s national police chief, Prefect Giovanni De Genarro, accepted the “Courage to Care” award on behalf of Giovanni Palatucci, who as police chief of Fiume saved more than 3,500 Jews during the war by giving them forged documents.
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