Giovanni Palatucci papers

Identifier
irn502000
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1998.A.0316
Dates
1 Jan 1993 - 31 Dec 1995
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Italian
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502000

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Giannicola Sinisi, the Italian Undersecretary of State for the Ministry of the Interior, donated this material to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in June 1998.

Scope and Content

Contains a biography of Giovanni Palatucci (1909-1944), who, as the police commissioner of Fiume, on the Italian coast, worked to ensure the safe migration of refugees, prevent the looting of Jewish homes, hid files, and supplied money to refugees attempting to escape the Gestapo. In September 1944, he was arrested and sent to Dachau, where he perished. He was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. Includes a certificate honoring Palatucci and the typed testimony of Goty Bauer of Milan, Italy, regarding his experiences with Palatucci.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.