Raoul Gustav Wallenberg by Jocelyn Shea

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Raoul Gustav Wallenberg

Published on Mar 17, 2016

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BIOGRAPHY ,FACTS, AND DEATH OF

Wallenberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden on August 4, 1912.
He died in Moscow 1947.
Raoul O. Wallenberg was his father and his mother was Maria Wising.
Raoul completed nine months of mandatory Swedish military service following school and then spent a year in Paris.
Wallenberg soon studied architecture at the University of Michigan and graduated in 1935.

In the 1940's Wallenberg had taken a job with Stockholm - based food - exporting company. It's owner that was a Jew, could no longer travel safely due to Nazis and the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through out Europe.
Wallenberg replace him on these trips, making him acquainted with the capital of Hungary, Budapest.
In January 1944 Nazis occupied Hungary which was home to the last sizable Eastern and Central European Jewish population. The government was planning to obliterate all European Jews.

The War Refugee Board in the United States requested an envoy ( or messenger ) from Sweden, which had stayed neutral throughout the World War 2, to make a rescue effort.
Wallenberg was selected to be that envoy.
During the following month of July in Budapest, Wallenberg's office provided protection passports and hideouts to thousands of Jews.

Protection passports put their bearers shelter under the Swedish crown, protecting the Jews for being deported to camps.
Raoul created cells of spies to provide him with information within the police department and the Hungarian political fascist establishment.
In December 1944 took siege of Budapest.
On January 17, 1945 Raoul Wallenberg and his driver Vilmos Langfelde, began a journey to Debrecen, 120 miles from Budapest.
The purpose of this trip is unknown.

Along the way to Debrecen Wallenberg and his driver were taken into custody by Soviet forces.
What happened to them is a mystery. They were never heard and seen from the outside world again.
In 1947 Andrei Vyshinsky, the Soviet deputy foreign minister announced he was not in the Soviet Union.
Then in 1957, Andrei Gromyko the country's new deputy admitted Wallenberg had been imprisoned by the Soviets.

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According to Gromyko, it was revealed in recently discovered paperwork that he had succumbed to heart disease and was cremated in Moscow's Lubyanka prison in July 1947.
The paperwork was never handed over to Swedish authorities, nor an explanation of why he was incarcerated.

Is honored in the Guiness World Book of Records has having saved the greatest number of people from extinction.
Opened a Swedish embassy office in Budapest close to the city's major Jewish Quetta.
Would personally try to rescue Jews from getting on the trains by giving them Swedish papers and arguing that they should be released.
Adolf Eichmann tried to assassinate him but failed and also promised there would be more attempts.