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  Giovanni Palatucci - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Palatucci was arrested on the 13th of September 1944.
Palatucci was officially honored by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in 1990.
Giovanni Palatucci Biography of Giovanni Palatucci (in italian).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giovanni_Palatucci   (351 words)

  
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Gianfranco Zuncheddu, postulator of Palatucci's Cause of Beatification, said that since "June 17 of last year, the beginning of the diocesan investigation for the beatification and canonization of the Servant of God as a martyr for the faith, we have succeeded in obtaining the edict of April 9.
Palatucci was born in Montella, Italy, in 1909.
Giovanni Palatucci was engaged to a young Jewish woman, and saw her safely in Switzerland before returning to his work.
palatucci.homestead.com /articles.html   (872 words)

  
 Giovanni Palatucci, an italian hero in the Holocaust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Giovanni Palatucci was born in 1909 in Montella, province of Avellino in the Campania region, Italy.
On September 13, 1944 Giovanni Palatucci was arrested by the Gestapo, accused with conspiracy and sent to the Trieste Prison, where he was condemned to death.
Giovanni Palatucci “went beyond command: he loved his neighbor more than himself”, survivor Roszi Neumann said before the commission that started the cause of beatification.
www.raoul-wallenberg.org.ar /english/opinionbarucht14.htm   (994 words)

  
 Giovanni Palatucci, Unlikely Italian Holocaust Hero Honored by Yad Vashem
But on Thursday -- the 40th anniversary of Palatucci's death at Dachau -- the unlikely hero is to be commemorated by senior Italian and Israeli officials in a special ceremony at Yad Vashem for having saved as many as 5,000 Jews from the Nazi genocide.
Palatucci was a young Italian policeman in charge of the occupied Adriatic seaport of Fiume &endash; now called Rijeka, in what would become Croatia &endash; when Benito Mussolini's anti-Jewish "racial laws" took effect in 1938.
His uncle, Bishop Giuseppe Maria Palatucci, had managed to turn the camp into a sort of refuge from fascist and Nazi rule, and hid the "illegal foreigners" that the younger Palatucci sent to him.
isurvived.org /Rightheous_Folder/Palatucci_Giovanni.html   (599 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - International - Plucked from obscurity, sainthood beckons for Italy's own Schindler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
On September 13, 1944, Palatucci was arrested by the Gestapo and condemned to death.
In 1990, Palatucci’s memory was honoured when he was awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations and his name was inscribed in the Italy Wall of Honour at Yad Vashem, the Jewish Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.
Palatucci’s beatification process, the halfway stage on the path to full canonisation, will now proceed with a sort of ‘trial’ in which diocesan officials gather all the known material on him and interview anyone who knew him.
news.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=1194412002   (1071 words)

  
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When Giovanni Palatucci, an attorney and a police chief, died in Dachau, he was 36 years old.
Giovanni Palatucci was a "lamed vovnik," a shining light in the dark nightmare of the Nazi Holocaust.
Further, Palatucci's actions are reported as part of the curriculum of the ADL's "Law Enforcement and Society" an intensive training program that bring law enforcement officers to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum for the purpose of exploring their relationship with the public, as well as issues of personal responsibility and ethical conduct.
www.adl.org /holocaust/speech_palatucci.asp   (1133 words)

  
 Istria on the Internet - People - Infoibati - Liubicich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Giovanni Liubicich was born in Brdo (family nickname: "Cerce" or "Crce") on July 24, 1902, and was residing in Fiume when he was arrested in May 1945 on suspicion of being an informant to the Gestapo, a totally false claim.
Ironically, three months after the Italian chief of police of Fiume, Giovanni Palatucci (now being considered for sainthood) was taken by the Nazis and killed in Dachau in February 1945, Giovanni Liubicich, likewise an anti-Fascist, was also taken and killed, not by the Nazis but by Tito's forces.
Giovanni's widow and daughter then followed the path taken by hundreds of thousands of other Istrians to escape the terrors of the incoming regime and the partisans who claimed to be a part of it.
www.istrianet.org /istria/people/heros-victims/liubicich.htm   (1086 words)

  
 Catholic Culture : Document Library : Uncovered: Correspondence Of Pius XII
But Giovanni Palatucci, instead of providing the Germans with information about these foreigners so that they might be deported, hid them and provided them with documents to leave.
But there was not only coordination between Palatucci and his uncle the bishop; there was also collaboration between the bishop and the Vatican — and this is something for which written evidence up to now has been lacking.
The lawyer for the bishop of Fiume during the war period, Barone Niel Sachs, recounted this story: "Learning that a Jewish woman was threatened with imminent arrest, Giovanni Palatucci entrusted her to one of his colleagues, saying: 'This is Mrs.
www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=4685   (1346 words)

  
 Giovanni Palatucci, an Italian policeman on the road of beatification
Giovanni Palatucci was a 28 years Old Italian policeman who in 1937 was working in the city of Fiume (nowadays part of Croatia) in charge of the Foreigners department. 
Palatucci (sitting) preferred to save his Jewish girlfriend and died in a concentration camp.
Palatucci's situation got worse when German officials searched his apartment looking for information so, the Swiss Ambassador to Trieste, a close friend of the policeman, offered a safe pass to Switzerland but, instead of using it, he sent his fiancée, a young Jew that nowadays lives in Israel.
www.raoulwallenberg.net /?en/saviors/others/palatucci/1488.htm   (549 words)

  
 Newsletter
Giovanni Palatucci “Angel of the Jews”, was an Italian hero of the highest order.
Giovanni was arrested in 1944 and accused of conspiracy.
Giovanni has been memorialized in Ramat Gan, Israel where a street bears his name and in Italy where streets in several town and a Park in Rome have been named in his honor.
www.columbusforum.org /html/newsletter.html   (604 words)

  
 IsraelFaxx.com newsletter: 5fax0210.txt
Trained as an attorney, Giovanni Palatucci was assigned to the Italian police Department of Foreigners, documenting refugees in the occupied northeastern city of Fiume.
Palatucci sent the refugees to his uncle, Giuseppe Maria Palatucci, the Catholic Bishop of Campania, who assisted them in their journey south.
Palatucci's little-known efforts have been compared to those of Raoul Wallenberg, who used his office as a Swedish diplomat to shield Hungarian Jews from the Nazis.
www.israelfaxx.com /webarchive/2005/02/5fax0210.html   (1311 words)

  
 Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome
Giovanni Palatucci's cause of beatification is already under way.
Giovanni Palatucci, born in 1909 in Montella, carried out this endeavor with the help of his uncle, Bishop Giuseppe Maria Palatucci of Campagna.
When Palatucci 'deported' Jews 'officially,' he handled it in such a way that they were sent to Campagna, instructing his refugees to contact his uncle, who would give them the most help possible," Tenembaum revealed.
www.zenit.org /english/visualizza.phtml?sid=55285   (667 words)

  
 Outside the Blogway: Move Over Oskar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
There is a push to name Italian (hi RW!) Giovanni Palatucci a saint.
But on Thursday – the 40th anniversary of Palatucci's death at Dachau – the unlikely hero is to be commemorated by senior Italian and Israeli officials in a special ceremony at Yad Vashem for having saved as many as 5,000 Jews from the Nazi genocide.
Palatucci was a young Italian policeman in charge of the occupied Adriatic seaport of Fiume – now called Rijeka, in what would become Croatia – when Benito Mussolini's anti-Jewish "racial laws" took effect in 1938.
outsidetheblogway.blogspot.com /2005/02/move-over-oskar.html   (811 words)

  
 Catholic News Agency
She learned that Giovanni Palatucci was born in Montella, Italy, on May 31, 1909, into a devout, well-to-do Catholic family.
In a few hours, she learned that Palatucci's great-grandmother was the sister of her third great-grandmother on her paternal grandfather's side, which made her father and Palatucci third cousins.
Palatucci's cause for canonization was completed and presented to the Vatican's Committee for his beatification in February 2004.
www.catholicnewsagency.com /new.php?n=1254   (536 words)

  
 Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
Giovanni Palatucci served as commissioner in the office for foreigners in the police headquarters in the northern Italian town of Fiume (today located in Croatia).
In September 1944, Palatucci was arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to death, after someone informed on him.
Following intervention by the Swiss Consul, Palatucci’s sentence was commuted to exile and he was sent to Dachau.
www.israelnationalnews.com /news.php3?id=76694   (472 words)

  
 TBRNews.org
He did all this in close collaboration with his uncle, Giuseppe Maria Palatucci, bishop of Campagna, a small town near Salerno in southern Italy, where the largest internment camp in southern Italy was located.
But there was not only coordination between Palatucci and his uncle the bishop; there was also collaboration between the bishop and the Vatican -- and this is something for which written evidence up to now has been lacking.
In a book just published in Italy by the government's Department of Public Security entitled "Giovanni Palatucci: The Policeman Who Saved Thousands of Jews," previously unpublished letters are reproduced which show that the bishop and the Holy See -- that is, Pius XII -- were working closely together throughout the war years.
www.tbrnews.org /Archives/a164.htm   (1649 words)

  
 The Ruth Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Yet unlike Schindler who was a womanizer and enjoyed his drink, Giovanni Palatucci lived a devoted and holy Catholic life and did not fear hiding Hebrew “spies”, as the Germans called Jews of their day.
This was not much different than Giovanni Palatucci who knew the SS was after him, but he was connected to the needs of the Jewish people through his girl friend who was Jewish, the woman he saved in his own place.
Though Giovanni had one more important link Rahab shared, there was a Jewish friend who could see into their people’s worlds and alert him to troubles that were affecting this world even before things became clear to the Schindler’s who also sought Judah’s safety along side him in the end.
www.angelfire.com /ny/Yeshuaslight/Rahab.html   (1302 words)

  
 2004 Danek Gertner Yad Vashem PhD Scholarship Awarded for Study on The Holocaust in Crimea and Caucasus
The late Giovanni Palatucci to be honored in presence of Italian Interior Minister
Giovanni Palatucci served as commissioner in the office for foreigners in the police headquarters in the north Italian town of Fiume (today located in Croatia).
In September 1944, Giovanni Palatucci was arrested by the Gestapo after someone informed on him, and sentenced to death.
www1.yadvashem.org /about_yad/press_room/press_releases/09.02.05.html   (568 words)

  
 CNY Feature Story: New Priests
There were a few curves in the road to Dunwoodie for Father John F.X. Palatucci, 43, as he moved from the East Coast to the West Coast and back again and found, on the journey, increasing success as a jazz musician.
His mother, Eleanor Cunnion Palatucci, had a brother and three uncles who were priests.
His father, Armond, had a cousin, Giovanni Palatucci, whose cause for sainthood was initiated in Rome in 2000.
www.cny.org /palatucci.htm   (603 words)

  
 Business Fresh : Article 'Avellino'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
External Links Giovanni Palatucci (http://web.tiscali.it/comitatopalatucci/palatucci.html) Biography of Giovanni Palatucci (in italian).
Yad Vashem to honor Giovanni Palatucci, unlikely Italian hero (http://isurvived.org/Rightheous_Folder/Palatucci_Giovanni.html) from Jerusalem Post.
Giovanni Palatucci (http://www.padremichele.it) Biography of Giovanni Palatucci and documents(in italian).
www.business-fresh.net /DisplayArticle868474.html   (720 words)

  
 Bishop Fiorenza - Pius XII
Given these grave accusations, the magazine Inside the Vatican will publish in its forthcoming issue two letters sent by Pius XII in 1940 to Bishop Giuseppe Maria Palatucci of Campagna, in southern Italy, where a major concentration camp was located.
Bishop Palatucci, in cooperation with his nephew Giovanni, chief of police in Fiume, and with the Vatican, looked after the Jews interned in Campagna.
In a second letter, No. 31514, the Pope gave the sum of 10,000 lire "to be distributed in aid to interned Jews." The amounts were considerable at that time.
faithleap.home.att.net /PiusXII.htm   (1235 words)

  
 biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
At left is Ramat Gan in Israel, where a street has been named after Giovanni Palatucci.
Located northeast from Tel Aviv, this twin city is the most important concentration of modern office buildings along the Ayalon Highway, in the area immediately adjacent to the International Diamond Exchange.
Many Italian cities, among which Milano, Torino, Salerno, Fiume, Tolentino, Desenzano, Trieste and Avellino have also named streets after Giovanni Palatucci.
palatucci.homestead.com /biography.html   (454 words)

  
 The Color of the Market
Arrested by the Gestapo secret police and shipped to Dachau, Palatucci died there on February 10th, 1945 at the age of 36, just weeks before the concentration camp was liberated.
Saved his Jewish fiancee from death Palatucci began the war as a police official in Rome, where he falsified papers and issued visas to Jews threatened by deportation to death camps.
Palatucci was arrested by the Gestapo in September 13, 1944, following an inspection by fascist authorities.
www.bradynet.com /bbs/em/100040-4866.html   (2669 words)

  
 Yad Vashem to honor unlikely Italian hero [Giovanni Palatucci ]
Yad Vashem to honor unlikely Italian hero [Giovanni Palatucci ]
But on Thursday – the 40th anniversary of Palatucci's death at Dachau –; the unlikely hero is to be commemorated by senior Italian and Israeli officials in a special ceremony at Yad Vashem for having saved as many as 5,000 Jews from the Nazi genocide.
I heard a rumour earlier that the Pope is determined to live long enough to canonise Pius XII, getting Senor Palatucci some way along the process as well would be splendid.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1340451/posts   (2325 words)

  
 Campagna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During World War II, Campagna was the site of a internment camp.
The Bishop Giuseppe Maria Palatucci turned the camp into a shelter for Italian and foreign Jews, many of them sent there for protection by his nephew Giovanni Palatucci; Giovanni was later honored as a Righteous Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.
This page was last modified 10:43, 4 December 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Campagna   (166 words)

  
 Three great acts of heroism and humility
Such was the case of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, but so too were the cases of two little known Italians, Giorgio Perlasca and Giovanni Palatucci.
Perlasca, a meat importer from Padua, posed as a Spanish diplomat in Nazi-controlled Hungary in 1944, to save about 5,000 Jews from the gas chambers and even stared down Adolph Eichmann who wanted to remove two 12-year-old Jewish children from his limousine.
Meanwhile, a quiet but tenacious effort is underway to achieve sainthood for Giovanni Palatucci, who as chief of police in Fiume, in northern Italy, saved the lives of 5,000 Jews destined for the death camps.
isurvived.org /3-heroes.html   (852 words)

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