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Righteous Gentile Honored Posthumously in Yad Vashem 16:15 Feb 10, '05 / 1 Adar 5765 A ceremony posthumously honoring Giovanni Palatucci of Italy as a Righteous Gentile took place at Yad Vashem today. Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu took part. The Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum reports that Giovanni Palatucci served as commissioner in the office for foreigners in the police headquarters of the north Italian town of Fiume (today located in Croatia). Beginning at the end of 1938, he tried to prevent the implementation of the race laws enacted against the Jews by the Italian fascist regime. In March...

The Wartime Policeman Who Saved Thousands of Jews Details Revealed About the Life of Giovanni Palatucci, Raoul Wallenberg BUENOS AIRES, JUNE 14, 2004 (Zenit.org).- An Italian policeman who gave his life to save some 5,000 Jews during World War II also helped to spare his fiancée. Giovanni Palatucci's cause of beatification is already under way. Earlier this month, Baruch Tenembaum, founder of the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, revealed details of Palatucci's life, at a conference on "Saviors of the Holocaust." Tenembaum gave new information on the person of the former police officer of the city of Rijeka (today in Croatia), but...