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  Raoul Wallenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wallenberg was arrested by the Red Army on January 17, 1945, probably on suspicion of being a spy for the United States.
Raoul Wallenberg was made an Honorary Citizen of the United States in 1981.
In 1996, Wallenberg was honored by Israel's Yad Vashem memorial as one of the "Righteous Among the Nations", recognizing those non-Jews who helped save Jews from the Holocaust.
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 Raoul Wallenberg - Wikipedia
Raoul Wallenberg werd in juli 1944 naar de Zweedse ambassade in Boedapest gestuurd met als doel om de Hongaarse joden van de dood te redden.
In 1957 maakten de Sovjets bekend dat Wallenberg op 17 juli 1947 gestorven is aan een hartaanval in de Loebjanka-gevangenis in Moskou.
Deze commissie kon niet vaststellen dat Wallenberg in het jaar 1947 overleed en kon zelfs niet uitsluiten dat Wallenberg nog in leven was.
nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Raoul_Wallenberg   (377 words)

  
 ADOLF WALLENBERG
Adolf Wallenberg studierte Medizin in Heidelberg und Leipzig, wo er 1886 promovierte.
Adolf Wallenberg ist in der Neurologie bekannt durch die Beschreibung der klinischen Symptomatik in Falle einer Malazie der Medulla oblongata.
Wallenberg war Herausgeber der Jahresberichten über die Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der Anatomie des Zentralnervenssystems.
www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/A/Adolf_Wallenberg   (152 words)

  
 RAOUL WALLENBERG
Wallenberg verteilte Schutzpässe und organisierte die Unterbringung seiner Schützlinge in über 30 Schutzhäusern.
Wallenberg wollte sich auch nach der Eroberung Budapests durch die Rote Armee weiterhin für seine Schützlinge einsetzen.
Zusammen mit seinem Chauffeur wurde Wallenberg in das KGB-Gefängnis Lubjanka gebracht.
www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/R/Raoul_Wallenberg   (431 words)

  
 Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Wallenberg (August 4, 1912 - [date of death uncertain]) was a Swedish diplomat.
Wallenberg was arrested by the Red Army on January 7, 1945, probably on suspicion of being a spy for the United States.
What happened to him since is not known - the official Russian version is that he died in captivity on July 17, 1947, but a number of testimonies have placed him alive in Siberian or Russian prisons as late as the 1960s.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/r/ra/raoul_wallenberg.html   (294 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.
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 Wallenberg Disappearance Close to Resolution
Raoul Wallenberg was an amazing man who but for an unfortunate circumstance would have been showered with accolades and stood as a living reminder of a courageous resistance to evil.
While Wallenberg had successfully eluded the Nazis, he was no match for the USSR and was one of many people in Nazi-occupied territory who disappeared, never to be seen again.
The official Soviet lie was that Wallenberg was taken into "protective custody" where the 35-year-old diplomat supposedly died from a heart attack in 1947.
www.leftwatch.com /articles/2000/000033.html   (363 words)

  
 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.us-israel.org /jsource/biography/wallenberg.html   (3831 words)

  
 Unforgettable: Wallenberg
Wallenberg was the citizen of a neutral country (Sweden), he was fluent in German, and on behalf of Lauer he learned how to deal with Nazis.
Wallenberg functioned as an unofficial diplomat, and his strategy was delay.
Wallenberg warned that he would make sure the general got hanged as a war criminal if the bloodbath occurred.
www.libertystory.net /LSUNFORGETWALLEN.htm   (603 words)

  
 CNN.com - Russia: Wallenberg wrongfully jailed - December 22, 2000
Wallenberg's wealthy, industrialist family and the Swedish government have maintained that he was executed by Soviet authorities.
The prosecutor's statement said Wallenberg and Langfelder were arrested despite having diplomatic immunity and kept for more than two and half years in Soviet prisons on espionage charges until their death.
Wallenberg's sister Nina Lagergren said the Russian announcement shed no light on what had happened to her brother, who went to Hungary in 1944.
www.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/12/22/russia.wallenberg/index.html   (620 words)

  
 Researchers: Wallenberg Died Later
The researchers cited witness accounts and detailed analysis of Soviet records in raising the possibility that Wallenberg was kept alive and isolated as late as the 1980s.
Wallenberg was arrested in Budapest, Hungary, soon after the Soviet army entered the city in January 1945, and he was brought to the Soviet Union, accused of spying.
Mesinai said the strongest evidence that Wallenberg could have lived into the 1980s was the fact that his possessions were not returned to family members until 1989, contradicting what she said was Soviet policy to return such items upon repatriation or to relatives upon death.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/aponline/20010111/aponline014314_000.htm   (235 words)

  
 Wallenberg Global Learning Network
The mission of the Wallenberg Global Learning Network is to help students, from primary grades through graduate school, to achieve better learning outcomes, to support faculty investigators in producing new knowledge for best learning practices, and to develop pedagogic and technical solutions suitable for innovative use in a variety of university and pre-college settings.
Wallenberg Hall is bridging technology and learning at Stanford University.
This new state-of-the-art building is the administrative home of the WGLN and houses the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning (SCIL), the U.S.-based node of the Wallenberg Global Learning Network.
www.wgln.org   (126 words)

  
 Raoul Wallenberg - susning.nu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Raoul Wallenberg (4 augusti 1912 - ?) tillhörde familjen Wallenberg.
Wallenberg hade upptäckt att både de tyska och ungerska myndigheterna hade en svaghet för officiella symboler.
Raoul Wallenberg har postumt tilldelats ett antal utmärkelser.
www.susning.nu /Raoul_Wallenberg   (613 words)

  
 Report on Raoul Wallenberg Released
While the diplomats and experts on the semiofficial commission said it was likely that Wallenberg died in 1947, they conceded that no evidence has been found to confirm that.
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)

  
 Wallenberg, Raoul, schwedischer Diplomat, der das Leben von Zehntausenden Juden in Budapest rettete.
Wallenberg, Raoul, schwedischer Diplomat, der das Leben von Zehntausenden Juden in Budapest rettete.
Wallenberg bemühte sich um Verhandlungen mit den Sowjets und um eine angemessene Versorgung der befreiten Juden.
Veröffentlichte Berichte enthüllten, daß es Raoul Wallenberg in den letzten Tagen vor der Befreiung Budapests gelungen war, mit Hilfe Ungarns und des Zsidó Tanács (Judenrat) einen gemeinsamen Plan der SS und der Pfeilkreuzler zu vereiteln, die Ghettos in die Luft zu sprengen.
www.shoa.de /p_raoul_wallenberg.html   (1006 words)

  
 NCSJ - Rep. Lantos Urges Russia on Wallenberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Anyone who knows Wallenberg's story is aware that humanity owes him a huge debt; when so many others were less courageous or even complicit in the evil of their time, he chose to risk his privileged life in order to help friends and strangers alike.
Wallenberg spared tens of thousands of people from deportation and death marches while Nazi power was at its peak, and many more from an all-out massacre as the desperate Germans withdrew toward the war's end.
In 1973, 28 years after Wallenberg was taken into Russian custody, his ailing mother wrote to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger pleading with him to seek information about her son from the Kremlin.
www.ncsj.org /AuxPages/100203Forward-Lantos.shtml   (1060 words)

  
 Wallenberg aide shares tale of rescuing 80 Jews
Agnes, who was Wallenberg's assistant, and the two diplomats dived into the freezing river, over and over again, untied the ropes, and swam the victims to safety.
She particularly relishes telling stories about how clever Wallenberg, who was 32 at the time he orchestrated the rescue of those 100,000 souls, fooled the Nazis with elaborate lies.
The feat Wallenberg is perhaps best known for: distributing thousands of Schutz-Pass, protective documents issued by Sweden (a neutral country), allowing the carrier to live relatively unmolested by the Nazis, that were a total fabrication.
www.suntimes.com /output/falsani/cst-nws-fals12.html   (924 words)

  
 Righteous Gentile: The Story of Raoul Wallenberg, Missing Hero of the Holocaust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
This is a book that will both inspire you, with Wallenberg's humanity and courage, and anger you that such a man could lose his liberty after fighting so hard for the freedom and safety of others.
Wallenberg not only distributed his passports, he tirelessly roamed around pulling Jews out of death marches and off trains bound for Auschwitz, he bossed Nazi thugs around in impeccable Hochdeutsch (and they listened), and he confronted Adolf Eichmann himself, all the while taking the most extraordinary risks.
Wallenberg was such a man. The story is, of course, a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions, as Wallenberg disappears into the Russian Gulag.
www.freeglossary.com /p:0140246649   (859 words)

  
 Press Release Archives #511-98 - MAYOR GIULIANI AND CROWN PRINCESS VICTORIA OF SWEDEN UNVEIL HOPE, A MONUMENT IN HONOR ...
Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who worked tirelessly to save Hungarian Jews from Nazi persecution in 1944-45, is credited with saving nearly 100,000 lives before his disappearance in 1945.
Wallenberg was born on August 4, 1912 in Sweden to a prominent banking family.
Wallenberg as an envoy to rescue Hungarian Jews.
www.ci.nyc.ny.us /html/om/html/98b/pr511-98.html   (834 words)

  
 09086   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from being sent to German Nazi death camps during the Second World War.
Raoul Wallenberg was a young businessman when he volunteered to go to Budapest in 1944 as a Swedish diplomat to try to save the lives of Hungarian Jews.
Wallenberg even confronted the infamous Adolf Eichmann, a top Nazi official charged with carrying out German dictator Adolf Hitler’s plan for destroying the Jews of Europe.
www.ibb.gov /editorials/09086.htm   (360 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)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics -- Roberts suggested 'dodging' idea to push Soviets on Wallenberg
SIMI VALLEY – As a Reagan White House lawyer, John Roberts urged the administration to dodge a proposal from the family of Raoul Wallenberg that sought to bring new pressure on the Soviets to disclose what became of the heroic Swedish diplomat.
I had credible evidence that Wallenberg was alive and well at that time," said Wolff, who once served in the Kennedy Justice Department.
Wallenberg, who would be 93, is believed to have been taken into custody by the Soviet army after the liberation of Hungary.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/politics/20050811-1129-ca-roberts-wallenberg.html   (649 words)

  
 Remembering Raoul Wallenberg
Wallenberg was captured in 1945 by Soviet troops during the liberation of Budapest and vanished.
Such honors are helpful in educating the world about Wallenberg's selfless and courageous work....The international community, and most especially the American government, must redouble their efforts to establish the facts of what happened to him.
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   (1252 words)

  
 CNN.com - Sweden unveils Wallenberg memorial - August 24, 2001
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf unveiled the tribute to Raoul Wallenberg, who is estimated to have saved the lives of 20,000 Jews in Budapest.
Nearby is a large bronze replica of Wallenberg's signature, as it appeared on passports he signed to help Jews escape deportation to death camps from Nazi-occupied Hungary.
Despite their insistence that he died in 1947, there were unconfirmed sightings in the Soviet prison system for years afterward, and his family continues to press for evidence and information.
www.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/08/24/sweden.wallenberg/index.html   (341 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Raoul Wallenberg (Scandinavian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Adolf Eichmann, heading the transport of Jews to concentration camps, demanded that Wallenberg stop these activities and ordered his assassination, but the attempt failed.
In 1957 the Soviet government announced that he had died in prison of a heart attack in 1947, but he was reported seen at later dates.
In 1991 Soviet authorities released KGB records that, although they did not contain proof that Wallenberg was dead, appeared to confirm that he had died in 1947, most likely by execution.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Wallenbe.html   (276 words)

  
 Roberts Urged Dodging Wallenberg Kin's Plan - WTOP Radio
As a Reagan White House lawyer, John Roberts urged the administration to dodge a proposal from the family of Wallenberg that sought to bring new pressure on the Soviets to disclose what became of the heroic Swedish diplomat.
I had credible evidence that Wallenberg was alive and well at that time," said Wolff, who worked in the Justice Department during the Kennedy administration.
Wallenberg, who would be 93 now, is believed to have been taken into custody by the Soviet army after the liberation of Hungary.
www.wtopnews.com /index.php?nid=116&sid=553251   (808 words)

  
 Greenwood Publishing Group I1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Wallenberg, who disappeared dear Debrecen in January 1945, remains an elusive figure due to lack of documentation about his life.
This chronicle of Raoul Wallenberg's sojourn to Budapest documents his activities at the Swedish Legation and his rescue efforts on behalf of the Jews of Budapest.
It is a matter of record that Wallenberg's mission was designed by compassionate and desperate men in Sweden and elsewhere.
info.greenwood.com /books/0275952/0275952142.html   (237 words)

  
 Arutz 7   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
In Israel, Yosef said, it was decided that MK Herzog will propose a bill that would formalize and enforce the State of Israel's commitment to learn of Wallenberg's fate, to obtain his freedom if he is still alive and to promote his legacy.
In the past, Israel has been unwilling to search for Wallenberg, explaining that he is a Swedish citizen and his government should undertake such a responsibility, not Israel.
Yosef explains that Wallenberg saved Jews, and therefore, the government of the Jewish State is responsible.
www.israelnationalnews.com /print.php3?what=news&id=64592   (420 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Search for Swedish Holocaust hero
If proved, it could substantiate claims that Wallenberg was seen in the USSR as late as in the 1970s.
Wallenberg was 33 when he disappeared - so he would have been 86 if he was still alive when we went to Vladimirsky Central.
Like many other attempts to find traces of Raoul Wallenberg, this one failed to lead to a breakthrough, but I hope that the information that was gathered helped Memorial's effort to draw a complete picture of the scope and structure of Soviet state terror.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4181427.stm   (778 words)

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