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Following the 1991 coup against Gorbachev, Dr. Parnes left the USSR and eventually established The Raoul Wallenberg International Movement for Humanity in Montreal, Canada, on the occasion of what may have been Wallenberg's 80th birthday, to develop a stronger international organization aimed at promoting Wallenberg's achievement, and ...
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.
As order collapsed, Arrow Cross members continued their attacks on Jews so that the majority of Budapest's Jews were only saved by the heroic efforts of a handful of Jewish leaders and foreign diplomats, most famously Sweden's special envoy Raoul Wallenberg, the Papal Nuncio Monsignor Angelo Rotta, Swiss Consul Carl Lutz, Spanish Consul Ángel ...
Plaque on the site of the former Swedish embassy in Budapest, in honour of Carl-Ivan Danielsson, Raoul Wallenberg and Per Anger. Per Johan Valentin Anger (7 December 1913 – 25 August 2002) was a Swedish diplomat.
Religious buildings and structures in Budapest (2 C, 4 P) Restaurants in ... Krisztina Téri Iskola; L. Liberty Statue (Budapest) ... Budapest; Raoul Wallenberg ...
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 ...
The Shoes on the Danube Bank (Hungarian: Cipők a Duna-parton) is a memorial erected on 16 April 2005, in Budapest, Hungary.Conceived by film director Can Togay, he created it on the east bank of the Danube River with sculptor Gyula Pauer [] to honour the Jews who were massacred by fascist Hungarian militia belonging to the Arrow Cross Party in Budapest during the Second World War.
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.