Raoul Wallenberg
Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat and humanitarian (1912-1947)
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A Swedish diplomat who issued thousands of protective passports to Hungarian Jews in 1944, then vanished into Soviet custody and was never seen again. The circumstances of his detention, death, and possible execution remain unresolved eight decades later.
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Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish architect and businessman who became Sweden's special envoy in Budapest between July and December 1944. During those months, he issued protective passports and sheltered Jews in buildings he declared Swedish territory, saving thousands from deportation during the Holocaust's final stage. On 17 January 1945, during the Siege of Budapest, Soviet SMERSH agents detained him on suspicion of espionage. He disappeared into the Lubyanka prison in Moscow. Soviet authorities reported in 1957 that he died of a heart attack in July 1947, but a 2023 declassified document sugg…
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