Ferenc Lilienberg

In the week of the book an interview is made with the writer Péter Simon, whose first book of short stories appeared in the prime of his life.

The true story of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian cattle dealer and avowed fascist who — trapped in Nazi-occupied Budapest after Italy's armistice with the Allies — nevertheless saved more than 5,000 Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust through a combination of lies, bribery and derring-do.