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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.
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.
In Norway, they managed to save 930 of the approximately 1,800 Jews, also transporting them to Sweden. [105] In 1944, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg managed to save thousands of Jews in Budapest in Hungary using forged documents. [106] The last major attempt to save Jews was made in 1944 by Rudolf Kastner. He negotiated with the Nazis to ...
Anger collaborated with Raoul Wallenberg to save the lives of thousands of Jews. Władysław Bartoszewski – Polish Żegota activist. Count Folke Bernadotte of Wisborg – Swedish diplomat, who negotiated the release of 27,000 people (a significant number of whom were Jews) to hospitals in Sweden.
Dr. Vera Parnes illegally founded the Raoul Wallenberg Society and created what she called the “Raoul Wallenberg Museum” in Moscow, [1] USSR, housing a small collection of books, articles and artwork devoted to Wallenberg. The Society organized expositions at cultural events in Moscow and delivered lectures in schools.
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. ... with saving ...
Raoul Wallenberg and others in the Swedish delegation also saved tens of thousands of Jews (according to some, between 70,000 and 100,000). As can be expected, there are varying estimates of the number of Jews rescued.
After American pressure, the Swedish government also despatched a diplomatic mission to Hungary in July 1944 to seek to use Hungary's peculiar diplomatic status to intercede on behalf of Hungarian Jews. Raoul Wallenberg ultimately issued several hundred visas and 10,000 protective passes with the aid of the Swedish chargé d'affaires in ...