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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.
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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 ...
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.
Anger and Wallenberg worked together, often literally snatching people from transports and death marches. After the Soviets invaded in January 1945, both Anger and Wallenberg were taken into custody. Anger was released three months later, but Wallenberg never emerged again, becoming one of the 20th century's most famous missing persons. [4]
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.
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A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...