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The Raoul Wallenberg story is a hero tale and a family tragedy of unbearable proportions. At the same time, it represents such a deep political wound in Sweden, such a dark history of the Cold War ...
One hundred years ago, on Aug. 4th, 1912, Raoul Wallenberg was born. During 1944, in just a few months, at the age of 32, this young man orchestrated and implemented one of the most remarkable life… ...
On January 17, 1945, after having saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews, Raoul Wallenberg was detained by the Soviet military counter-intelligence unit (SMERSH), never to be seen again. A full ...
Near the end of World War II, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg ensured the safety of more than 100,000 Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Hungary. Using his own money, he built apartment homes for ...
Raoul Wallenberg och de internationella hjälpaktionerna i Budapest. [The perpetrators set the terms. Raoul Wallenberg and the international aid operations in Budapest]. Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2016.
The University of Michigan has introduced the Raoul Wallenberg Institute on its Ann Arbor campus to address the global rise in antisemitism and promote religious inclusion.
What did Raoul Wallenberg do during the Holocaust? From mid-May to the beginning of July 1944, some 440,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to the Auschwitz death camp – the fastest, ...
Raoul Wallenberg was born on August 4, 1912, 110 years ago. To be sure, he was one of the most prominent heroes of the Holocaust. Without any diplomatic experience, he arrived in Budapest on July ...
The William & Mary Law School, the Lund University Faculty of Law and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Sweden have officially entered into a memorandum of ...
Wallenberg's legacy will live on beyond his former campus residence, Mayerfeld said. "We know how proud the University of Michigan is to call Raoul Wallenberg an alumnus. We, too, share in that ...
ANN ARBOR, MI — Raoul Wallenberg rented a room in a house at 308 E. Madison St. when he arrived in Ann Arbor in 1931 as a University of Michigan freshman. Coming from a prominent Swedish family ...