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  2. Raoul Wallenberg - Wikipedia

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    Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg (4 August 1912 – disappeared 17 January 1945) [note 1] [1] was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian. He saved thousands of Jews in German-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from German Nazis and Hungarian fascists during the later stages of World War II .

  3. Per Anger - Wikipedia

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    Per Johan Valentin Anger (7 December 1913 – 25 August 2002) was a Swedish diplomat. Anger was Raoul Wallenberg's co-worker at the Swedish legation in Budapest during World War II when many Jews were saved because they were supplied with Swedish passports. After the war, he spent a lot of time trying to clarify Wallenberg's fate.

  4. Nina Lagergren - Wikipedia

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    Nina Viveka Maria Lagergren (née von Dardel; 3 March 1921 – 5 April 2019) was a Swedish businesswoman and the half-sister of Raoul Wallenberg, and the leading force to find out what happened to him after his disappearance. She was the founder of the Raoul Wallenberg Academy. She also presented Sommar i P1 in 2014 on Swedish Radio.

  5. Historic Ann Arbor home of WWII hero Raoul Wallenberg to be ...

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    The house at 308 East Madison St. in Ann Arbor was once the home of Raoul Wallenberg, a University of Michigan alum who disappeared after being detained by the Soviets in 1945. ... "As a Swedish ...

  6. Wallenberg family - Wikipedia

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    The Wallenberg family is a prominent Swedish family renowned as bankers, industrialists, politicians, bureaucrats and diplomats, present in most large Swedish industrial groups, like EQT AB, Ericsson, Electrolux, ABB, SAS Group, SKF, Atlas Copco, Saab AB, and more. In the 1970s, the Wallenberg family businesses employed 40% of Sweden's ...

  7. Susan Mesinai - Wikipedia

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    Susan Mesinai is best known for her efforts to resolve the case of missing Swedish diplomat, Raoul Wallenberg. Wallenberg was revered for saving thousands of Jews from genocide in Nazi-occupied Hungary in the last half of 1944, and disappeared from Budapest on January 17, 1945. His status as a neutral and a diplomat as well as his humanitarian ...

  8. Shoes on the Danube Bank - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, Valdemar Langlet, head of the Swedish Red Cross in Budapest, with his wife Nina, and later the diplomat Raoul Wallenberg and 250 colleagues were working around the clock to save the Jewish population from being sent to Nazi concentration camps; this figure later rose to approximately 400.

  9. List of honours dedicated to Raoul Wallenberg - Wikipedia

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    Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian.He is widely celebrated for saving thousands of Jews in German-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from German Nazis and Hungarian Arrow Cross perpetrators during the later stages of World War II.