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  Raoul Wallenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Raoul junior's grandfather, "farfar", was a Swedish diplomat.
Wallenberg was arrested by the Soviet Red Army on January 17, 1945 as they entered Budapest, probably on suspicion of being a spy for the United States.
Raoul Wallenberg was made an Honorary Citizen of the United States in 1981.
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 Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Wallenberg belongs — or belonged — to one of the most famous families in Sweden, the large Wallenberg family.
Wallenberg's ally Szalay was sent to deliver a note to Schmidthuber explaining that Raoul Wallenberg would make sure that the general would be held personally responsible for the massacre and that he would be hanged as a war criminal after the war.
Wallenberg requested, and was given permission to visit the Soviet military headquarters in the city of Debrecen east of Budapest.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/wallenberg.html   (3831 words)

  
 Raoul Wallenberg, Angel of Mercy
Raoul Wallenberg was born in 1912 to a prominent Swedish family that had produced generations of bankers and diplomats.
Raoul Wallenberg's tactic was to issue as many Hungarian Jews as possible with Swedish passports, which normally saved them from deportation to the death camps.
Raoul Wallenberg even had a number of face-to-face confrontations with Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Nazis' "Final Solution" for the Jews in Hungary.
www.auschwitz.dk /Wallenberg.htm   (1720 words)

  
 Raoul Wallenberg Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Raoul Wallenberg, born in 1912 in the renowned Swedish Wallenberg family of bankers, politicians and diplomats, graduated with honors in architecture at the University of Michigan in the United States.
Wallenberg was subsequently arrested and brought to the Lubjanka prison in Moscow.
Raoul Wallenberg is honorary citizen of the United States, Canada, Israel and the city of Budapest.
www.rwi.lu.se /institute/rw.shtml   (855 words)

  
 Remembering Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Wallenberg was born in 1912 into a prominent Swedish family.
Wallenberg was captured in 1945 by Soviet troops during the liberation of Budapest and vanished.
Six decades after Wallenberg's disappearance, the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation will start a worldwide campaign to collect 100,000 signatures, as many as the lives saved by the “Hero Without a Grave”, which will be presented to the United Nations to urge the solution of one of the most controversial and unresolved cases of modern history.
www.tekla-szymanski.com /rwic.html   (1363 words)

  
 Raoul Wallenberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Raoul's father, Raoul Oscar Wallenberg, was a naval officer and a cousin of Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg, two of Sweden's best-known financiers and industrialists during the half century beginning around 1930.
Wallenberg's ally Szalay was sent to find Schmidthuber and hand over a note which declared that Raoul Wallenberg would make sure that the general would be held personally responsible for the massacre and that he would be hanged as a war criminal after the war.
Raoul Wallenberg told an amazed Soviet sergeant in fluent Russian that he was the Swedish chargé d'affaires for the portions of Hungary liberated by the Soviets.
www.raoul-wallenberg.org.ar /english/wallening.htm   (5336 words)

  
 IP Mag Archive 08/07/1999 Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Wallenberg was born on August 4, 1912 into one of the most famous, wealthy, and powerful families in Sweden.
Raoul's father, who died three months before Raoul was born, was an officer in the navy and Raoul was raised with great love and care by a loving and attentive extended family including his grandfather, Gustav Wallenberg, who took responsibility for his education.
Raoul Wallenberg was found day in and day out among the thousands of those walking in never-ending rows of starving and tortured people.
www.incrediblepeople.com /people(1999-08-07).htm   (2350 words)

  
 The American Experience | America and the Holocaust | People & Events | Raoul Wallenberg
In December 1944, the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg attended a small dinner party in Budapest; also at the table was the Nazi Adolf Eichmann.
Although Wallenberg was sent as an attaché to the Swedish legation in Budapest, he became in effect the representative of the recently established U.S. War Refugee Board.
Wallenberg carried food and medical supplies to the Jews on the marches and frequently succeeded in removing Jews from the columns under the pretext that they were protected Swedish citizens.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/holocaust/peopleevents/pandeAMEX100.html   (867 words)

  
 Who Content   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Raoul Wallenberg was born into a distinguished Swedish family on August 4, 1912.
Educated in Sweden, Raoul studied architecture at the University of Michigan and graduated in the same class as President Gerald Ford.
Raoul quickly began to deal with the horror that hundreds of thousands of persons faced at the hands of the Nazis and their Hungarian collaborators.
www.raoulwallenberg.org /who/who.html   (216 words)

  
 Israpundit: 17 January 1945: Raoul Wallenberg disappears in the bowels of the Soviet system
Raoul Wallenberg (August 4, 1912 — [date of death uncertain]) was a Swedish diplomat and a member of the influential Swedish Wallenberg family.
Wallenberg was arrested by the Red Army on January 7 [sic], 1945, probably on suspicion of being a spy for the United States.
One example is the photo album of the Wallenberg memorial park in Budapest; the link given leads to the first photo of the album, at which point one may continue to browse by using the "next" button.
www.israpundit.com /archives/2005/01/post_10.php   (847 words)

  
 The Jewish Post - News - The JEWISH POST remembers... Raoul Wallenberg: A hero without a grave...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When Raoul returned to Sweden, his grandfather insisted that it was time for his to begin studying banking and commerce.
Raoul's first position was with a Swedish firm in South Africa.
Wallenberg was increasingly concerned with the fate of Europe's Jewish communities.
www.jewishpost.com /jp1101/jpn1101d2.htm   (498 words)

  
 THHP Questions: Raoul Wallenberg
The man you speak of is Raoul Wallenberg, a non-Jewish Swedish diplomat who was assigned to Budapest, Hungary, while the Jews of that country were being deported en masse to Auschwitz in 1944.
Wallenberg was abducted by the Soviets in 1945, when they occupied Hungary, and according to official KGB documents liberated after the fall of the USSR, he died in the Lubyanka Jail in Moscow in 1947.
A joint Swedish-Russian committee investigating the fate of Raoul Wallenberg for the past nine years has concluded that he was either executed by the Soviets, or made to disappear as a prisoner in a Soviet gulag, a Swedish diplomat told The Jerusalem Post yesterday.
www.holocaust-history.org /questions/wallenberg-raoul.shtml   (616 words)

  
 Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Wallenberg not only saved 100,000 lives - he saved our faith in humanity...
The handwritten document stated that “the prisoner Wallenberg, who is known to you, died last night in his cell.” The document was dated July 17, 1947, and was signed Smoltsov, head of the Lyublyanka prison infirmary.
One of these trees bears the name of Raoul Wallenberg - an honor awarded to him in 1966 for his most noble principles of humanity by risking his life to save Jews during the Holocaust...
auschwitz.dk /rescuers/id4.htm   (1527 words)

  
 Raoul Wallenberg's Rescue Operation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest by July 1944, it was late.
Toward the end of the war, when the situation was totally desperate, Wallenberg issued a simplified form of his protective pass, one copied page with his signature alone.
Wallenberg is pictured here to the right in his office with some of his Jewish co-workers.
www.millville.org /workshops_F/Jill2/Wallenberg/rescue.html   (1394 words)

  
 Raoul Wallenberg...Aftermath
So far, it can be concluded that Raoul Wallenberg and Vilmos Langfelder were arrested by a Russian NKVD officer a few days after they met at Soviet headquarters.
Wallenberg was arrested upon suspicion of espionage and spying for the United States and Great Britain.
Miasnikov admitted that he knew of Wallenberg and said privately that he was in very poor condition and in a mental hospital.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/2393/afterma.html   (705 words)

  
 Raoul Wallenberg
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was posted to Budapest, Hungary as part of a complex plan to save as many Jews as possible from the Nazi murder machine.
While Wallenberg's fate remains uknown, he stands as a shining symbol of courage and heroism to the present day.
Pangburn, Thelma I. Raoul Wallenberg : Hero of the Holocaust.
www.multied.com /Bio/people/Wallenberg.html   (179 words)

  
 Report on Raoul Wallenberg Released
Russia says Wallenberg died in 1947, a victim of the Soviets, but some researchers believe he survived in Soviet custody perhaps even into the 1980s.
Mesinai and other researchers have said they believe Wallenberg most likely did not die in 1947, but was isolated under a false identity in the Gulag penal system and could have lived as late as the 1980s.
Wallenberg's home country also was too slow in pursuing the case, initially accepting assurances that the diplomat was being held for safekeeping, then refusing to insist on more concrete action in order to facilitate negotiations on a Swedish-Russian trade agreement.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/aponline/20010112/aponline061721_000.htm   (748 words)

  
 The Jewish Post - News - The JEWISH POST remembers... Raoul Wallenberg: A hero without a grave...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
During my lecture tours both in Sweden and abroad as part of the international effort to secure Raoul's release from the Soviet Union, I have often been asked how it was possible to save such a large number of people—about 100,0000—from the Nazi executions.
We are left only with the everlasting memory of what he did - and what Raoul Wallenberg did was to fulfill, as none in his time would or could, the terms of the contract which binds each of us to humanity.
We must proclaim to all the nations that Raoul Wallenberg lives, tirelessly champion his cause, tirelessly press for news of his fate - till the day, if it please God, that Raoul Wallenberg returns to us from the long, bitter totalitarian night.
www.jewishpost.com /jp1101/jpn1101d.htm   (383 words)

  
 Letters and Dispatches, Arcade Publishing
Wallenberg had watched the progress of the war and the treatment of the Jews from his neutral country with growing horror and the burning ambition to do something.
At the heart of this collection is the correspondence between Raoul and his paternal and sternly patrician grandfather Gustaf Wallenberg, who had pledged to support his fatherless grandson so long as Raoul studied and worked outside of Sweden.
In the fall of 1931, Raoul matriculated at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to study architecture and spent four years observing and admiring a country lifting itself up from the depths of the Depression.
www.arcadepub.com /book/index.cfm?GCOI=55970100878240   (567 words)

  
 RAOUL WALLENBERG
Wallenberg, as is now well known, was arrested by the Soviet secret police shortly after the Red Army entered Budapest.
According to the Soviets, Wallenberg had been arrested in Budapest in 1945 on suspicion of espionage and had been taken to Moscow, where he'd died of natural causes in the Lubyanka prison two years later (at the age of 35).
And so, as Wallenberg's 77th birthday approaches, there is more reason than ever to be hopeful--if not for Wallenberg's return from captivity, at least for a full account of his fate.
globalsecurity.org /intell/library/congress/1989_cr/s890731-tribute.htm   (1036 words)

  
 Raoul Wallenberg
Wallenberg requested, and was given permission to visit the Soviet military headquarters in the city of
The reply was the same as usual--Raoul Wallenberg died in 1947.
Raoul Wallenberg associations work endlessly to find answers to what happened Raoul Wallenberg.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/wallenberg.html   (3620 words)

  
 Glossary 1
Wallenberg, through the use of bribery, threats of postwar retribution and sheer nerve, saved over 100,000 Hungarian Jews from certain death at the hands of the Nazis during the second world war.
The icon of Raoul Wallenberg stands as a symbol of all that is brave and good in the world.
In what must be one of the most perverse episodes of modern history Raoul Wallenberg was kidnapped and imprisoned by the Soviets on January 17, 1945, in Budapest, on his way to meet with the commanders of the Soviet troops occupying the capitol.
www.burtonreport.com /HomePage/Glossary1.htm   (2369 words)

  
 Raoul Wallenberg and Tibet - www.phayul.com
The Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg disappeared in Budapest January 1945 after a peerlessly heroic engagement to save tens of thousands, maybe up to 30,000 Jews from the Nazi holocaust in Hungary.
When two years later Moscow reported that Raoul Wallenberg was dead, this was swallowed by the Swedish government without comment.
The foreign minister accepted the Russian word that Wallenberg was dead (without evidence) and refused to accept any other version or even any other possibility, since he did not want to offend the Russians.
www.phayul.com /news/article.aspx?id=6114   (655 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Wallenberg Is Here! The True Story About How Raoul Wallenberg Faced Down the Nazi War Machine & the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Wallenberg rescued Jews using his knowledge of the Nazi psyche and his artistic and architectural talents, language skills and acting ability.
Wallenberg used his considerable intellect and debating skills to demonstrate to Eichmann the fallacies of the Nazi myths foisted on the German people by Hitler.
Eichmann and his brutal history are well known to the masses, but Wallenberg is known mostly to those interested in Holocaust studies and it is only in recent years that his leviathan efforts to rescued a doomed humanity have become more widely heralded.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1403345597?v=glance   (2082 words)

  
 Wallenberg web page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In June 1944, thirty-two year old Swedish businessman, Raoul Gustav Wallenberg was appointed as Secretary of the Swedish Legation in Budapest.
Though Wallenberg had no prior diplomatic experience, he had the ability to persuade, and intimidate.
After the city was liberated by the Soviet Army in January 1945, Wallenberg was arrested by the Soviets and never heard from again.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/2393   (232 words)

  
 Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics - An Outreach Arm of Malibu Jewish Center and Synagogue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics - An Outreach Arm of Malibu Jewish Center and Synagogue
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute and the Islamic Center of Southern California invite your participation in our Second Annual Jewish Muslim Dialogue, Visions and Viewpoints, Sunday, Jan 22, 2006 from 2:30 to 6:30 at the Islamic Center, 434 S Vermont, LA 90020.
Join in structured conversations known as dialogues with members of the Jewish and Islamic communities led by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics.
raoulwallenberginstitute.org   (133 words)

  
 Alumnus Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Jews from Nazi extermination, to be remembered by his sister in the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of tens of thousands of Jews during World War II.
The U-M Raoul Wallenberg Endowment was established in 1985 to commemorate Wallenberg and to recognize those whose own courageous action and/or writings call to mind his extraordinary accomplishments and values.
The Wallenberg Endowment and the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies fund the U-M Raoul Wallenberg Medal and Lecture.
www.umich.edu /~newsinfo/Releases/2000/Oct00/r102400c.html   (321 words)

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