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| | 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. |
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