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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.
- Childhood of Privilege
- An Awareness of Anti-Semitism
- Rescue Efforts in Budapest
- Arrest and Disappearance
- The Mystery of Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Gustav Wallenberg was born near Stockholm, Sweden, on August 4, 1912. His parents both hailed from prominent Swedish families, whose members included bankers, bishops, diplomats and professors. Wallenberg’s father, Raoul Oskar Wallenberg (1888-1912), a lieutenant in the Swedish navy, had died of an illness three months before his son’s birth....
In 1936, Wallenberg began working for a Dutch bank in Haifa, a city in present-day northern Israel. While living in Haifa, he heard firsthand accounts from German-Jewish refugees about the plight of Jews under Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), who became the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and whose anti-Semitic Nazi Partywas in control of the country. By th...
In July 1944, Wallenberg, then 31 years old, arrived in Budapest. He promptly opened a Swedish embassy office close to the city’s major Jewish ghetto and hired 400 individuals, many of them Jews who had been granted diplomatic immunity, to operate the facility. During the following months, Wallenberg’s office provided protective passports to approx...
In December 1944, the Soviet military began a siege of Budapest. On January 17, 1945, Wallenberg and his driver, Vilmos Langfelder, began a journey to Debrecen, located 120 miles east of Budapest, where the Soviets and a provisional Hungarian government were headquartered. The exact purpose of the trip is unknown, although one possibility is that W...
As the decades passed, various unconfirmed reports from released Soviet prisoners and others surfaced regarding Wallenberg’s fate, with some claiming the Swedish humanitarian was still alive and in Soviet custody. By the late 1970s and early 1980s, Wallenberg’s heroism and the mystery surrounding his disappearance had earned international notoriety...
Jul 7, 2021 · A Soviet government report in 1956 suggested that Wallenberg had died on July 17, 1947, while imprisoned by Soviet authorities at the infamous Lubyanka Prison in Moscow. Subsequent eyewitness sightings of Wallenberg in the Soviet penal system after 1947 have called this statement into question.
Oct 31, 2016 · LONDON — Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from being killed by the Nazis, has been formally declared dead, 71 years after he disappeared in Hungary...
- Sewell Chan
Sep 4, 2024 · In October 2016 the Swedish government officially declared Wallenberg dead, just months after the publication of the secret diaries of former KGB head Ivan A. Serov, who contended that Wallenberg had been liquidated in 1947 upon orders from Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 15, 2016 · Today, 71 years after Wallenberg was apprehended that day in Budapest and later imprisoned by the Soviet military in the Lubyanka prison in Moscow, the finite details of the last days and the...
Jan 12, 2024 · Russia claims he died in a Soviet prison on 17 July 1947. However, many witness reports suggest he may have been alive much later. In October 2016 Wallenberg was declared dead by the Swedish Tax Agency, which registers birth and deaths.
