In 1987, a group of Holocaust survivors wrote to the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum to notify them of an heroic savior that had gone unnoticed in Padua, Italy for many years - one who had saved over 5000 lives in Budapest in World War II. Once discovered, he went by many names: the Spanish Schindler. The Italian Wallenberg. Righteous Among the Nations.

But before all that, he was Giorgio Perlasca