Italian state television plans to film a two-part miniseries based on the life of an Italian businessman who saved thousands of Jews in the Budapest ghetto during World War II. The series will be based on “The Banality of Good,” a book about Giorgio Perlasca, who is known in Italy as the “Italian Schindler.” Perlasca, who died several years ago, was an ardent fascist until he found himself appalled at the way Jews were treated in wartime Budapest. Masquerading as a Spanish diplomat, he saved Jews by issuing them false travel documents.
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