Raoul Wallenberg

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Raoul Wallenberg , born the August 4th 1912 with Stockholm (Sweden), and whose date of death remains dubious, was a Diplomate Swedish. He received in 1935 a diploma of Architecture of the Université of Michigan. As a person in charge with Budapest, it made use of its statute of diplomat to save a number impressing of Juif S Hungarian towards the end of the Second world war.

According to the method initiated by Valdemar Langlet it used the possibility of delivering temporary Swedish passports informant who their owners were Swedish citizens on standby of repatriation. It also very skilfully negotiated with official Nazis like Adolf Eichmann to obtain the cancellation of deportations, while exploiting their fear of the consequences to have perpetrated war crimes. Wallenberg would have thus saved between 20.000 and 100.000 Jews and is regarded as one of the most important people to have directly fought against the Shoah.

Its strategy mainly consisted in buying houses and installing Jewish refugees there in their providing a " passport of protection" ( in Allemand : Schutz-Pass ). The buildings were bought with funds of the embassy. These passports of protection were juridically invalid, but Wallenberg had noticed that the German and Hungarian authorities were misled by the official aspect of these papers and believed that they protected indeed their owners. That functioned of many times. Wallenberg also accommodated many refugees with the embassy from Sweden to Budapest.

Wallenberg was stopped the January 17th 1945 by the Red Army , probably on a suspicion of espionage in favor of the the United States. What then arrived to him is not known. The official version is that he died in captivity the July 17th 1947, but of many witnesses mention to have seen it alive in the prisons of Russia or Siberia until in the Années 1960.

Raoul Wallenberg was made Citoyen of honor of the United States of America in 1981. The bill was supported by Tom Lantos, a Hungarian Jew which when it was adolescent found refuge in one of the protected houses of Wallenberg. It was later made citizen of honor of the Canada in 1985 and of Israel in 1986.

In 1996, Wallenberg was recognized by the Mémorial of Yad Vashem like belonging to the " Right among the Nations ".

See too

Per Anger

Refer

Shepherd, Susanne (2005) " Stuck In Neutral: The Reasons Behind Sweden' S Passivity In The Raoul Wallenberg Case"

External bonds

, the foundation Raoul Wallenberg
a biography of Wallenberg
To the research of the Swedish heroes of the Holocaust (article)
Holocaust Budapest Memorial, testimony from the family Jakobovics in 1947
Witness: " Karoly Szabo played has determining role among Wallenberg' S supporters"
In the search of Raoul Wallenberg

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