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Language: French and other languages 1933–1940
4 microfilm rolls (16 mm)
Finding aid: Folder-level descriptions
Restrictions: On reproduction and distribution
See the finding aid for this collection: RG-11.001M.25
USHMM, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies � 164
RG-20.004 --- Records Relating to the Investigation of Giorgio Perlasca by the United
States Holocaust Memorial Council
This collection contains four folders of files concerning Giorgio Perlasca and his work to
assist and rescue Hungarian Jews. Among the copied materials are letters, newspaper and
magazine articles, testimonies, and interviews concerning Perlasca‘s activities in
Hungary in 1944.
Provenance: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council collected the materials during an
evaluation of Giorgio Perlasca‘s assistance to Hungarian Jews prior to awarding him the
USHMC Medal of Remembrance in September 1990. The information was received from
Yad Vashem and various sources in Hungary and Italy. A file concerning the controversy
of Lazlo Szamosi was added to the collection.
Biographical/historical note: Giorgio Perlasca was born in Como, Italy, on January 31,
1910. During World War II, Perlasca worked for an Italian livestock firm and was
stationed in Hungary. Connections with the Spanish embassy in Budapest gave him an
opportunity to pose as an embassy official and provided him an opportunity to rescue
thousands of Hungarian Jews from deportation.
Languages: English, Hungarian, Hebrew, German, Italian 1945–1990
2.5 linear inches
RG-10.204 --- Caroline Ferriday Collection
This material relates to women in the Polish resistance who were subjected to medical
experiments by the Nazis at Ravensbrück concentration camp and the Auschwitz killing
center. The Polish ―kroliki‖ or ―lapins‖ [rabbits], as they came to be known, underwent
tortures including the removal of bone mass from the lower legs and insertion of septic
materials including glass, dirt, and infected rags into muscle mass in order to test the
efficacy of sulfonamide drugs. Most of the women suffered long and excruciating deaths.
Provenance: The collection was assembled by Caroline Wolsey Ferriday and donated to
the National Archives and Records Administration, which transferred it to the Museum as
a more appropriate repository.