Raoul Wallenberg
Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat and humanitarian (1912-1947)
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Swedish diplomat who issued fake passports and sheltered thousands of Hungarian Jews in Budapest during 1944, then vanished into Soviet custody. His rescue operation remains one of WWII's most documented acts of individual resistance.
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Raoul Wallenberg 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. While serving as Sweden's special envoy in Budapest between July and December 1944, Wallenberg issued protective passports and sheltered Jews in buildings which he declared as Swedish territory.
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