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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.
These are available from Raoul Wallenberg Unit of B'nai B'rith in Melbourne. Raoul Wallenberg Unit requested clergy around the world to speak about Raoul Wallenberg and his heroic deeds – 'One Person can Make a Difference' - from their pulpits over the weekend 3–5 August 2012 which coincided with the date of his 100th birthday, 4 August 2012.
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.
The memorial at Bełżec extermination camp commemorates 600,000 murdered Jews and 1,500 Poles who tried to save Jews. [15] 6,532 men and women (more than from any other country in the world) have been recognized as rescuers by Yad Vashem in Israel., [16] constituting the largest national contingent. [17]
Raoul Wallenberg: Buried Alive is a Canadian documentary film, directed by David Harel and released in 1983. [1] A profile of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, the film covered his role in saving the lives of Jewish refugees from the Holocaust, as well as exploring the evidence that he may still have been alive in a Soviet gulag as late as the early 1980s.
A historic building mark on the house on 308 East Madison St. in Ann Arbor denotes that this Dutch Colonial was once the home of Raoul Wallenberg, a University of Michigan alum who disappeared ...
In 1944, he persuaded Roosevelt to create the War Refugee Board, which sponsored Swedish businessman Raoul Wallenberg’s mission to Hungary to help Jews leave the country. More than 200,000 Jews ...
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 ...