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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 .
Beginning in 1993, the RWIMH petitioned the government of Canada to honour Raoul Wallenberg. The Canadian Parliament declared January 17 Raoul Wallenberg Day in 2001, having received the support of, among others, Members of Parliament Clifford Lincoln, Irwin Cotler, and Sheila Copps, and Senator Sheila Finestone. [5]
Raoul Wallenberg: Between the Lines is a 1985 Australian documentary film, directed by Karin Altmann and produced by Bob Weis, about Raoul Wallenberg, who saved the lives of many Jews in Budapest during World War 2. [1]
The Raoul Wallenberg-memorial at the Dohány Street Synagogue in Budapest Alberto Carlos de Liz-Teixeira Branquinho (27 January 1902 – 1973) was a Portuguese diplomat credited with saving the lives of 1,000 Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from Hungarian Fascists and the Nazis during the later stages of World War II, while ...
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.
This action attracted Raoul Wallenberg's interest. He agreed to meet Szabó's influential friend, Pál Szalai, a high-ranking member of the police force. The meeting was on the night of December 26. This meeting was in preparation of saving the Budapest Ghetto in January 1945. Swedish Legation Budapest 1944 – Badge Karoly Szabo
Red Army troops reached the outskirts of Budapest in December 1944, and the siege of the city began. Arrow Cross members and the Germans may have conspired to destroy the Budapest ghetto but any evidence remains disputed. [24] Days before fleeing, Arrow Cross Interior Minister Gábor Vajna ordered that streets and squares named for Jews be renamed.
The Raoul Wallenberg Emlékpark (memory park) in the rear courtyard of the Dohány Street Synagogue holds the Memorial of the Hungarian Jewish Martyrs — at least 400,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered by the Nazis. [1] Made by Imre Varga, it resembles a weeping willow whose leaves bear inscriptions with the names of victims.