Learn about Gennaro Verolino, recipient of the 2004 Per Anger prize to human rights defenders.
Gennaro Verolino
All we did was write out these protective passports. Every letter was written out on typewriter. There were many, surely 25,000 of them.
When the Soviet Red Army liberated Budapest in January 1945, there were still 120,000 Jews living there. This was the single largest group that had survived the Nazi persecutions during World War II. A young Catholic priest played a vital role in making this possible.
