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Raoul Wallenberg

Born

in Lidingö kommun, Stockholms län, Sweden

August 04, 1912

Died

July 31, 1952

Website

http://raoulwallenberg.org/

Genre

Nonfiction

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Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg (B.A., Architecture, University of Michigan, 1935) was a businessman and diplomat who served as Sweden's special envoy in Nazi-occupied Budapest, Hungary, between July and December 1944, where he issued protective passports and sheltered Jews in buildings designated as Swedish territory.

On 17 January 1945, during the Siege of Budapest by the Soviet Red Army, Wallenberg was detained by SMERSH on suspicion of espionage and subsequently disappeared. He was later reported to have been imprisoned by the KGB secret police in the Lubyanka.

Due to this disappearance, the circumstances of Wallenberg's death remain mysterious. The Soviet government in 1957 released a document claiming that he had died of a a heart attack in pri ...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 57 ratings · 7 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Letters and Dispatches 1924-1944: The Man Who Saved Over 100,000 Jews, Centennial Edition 4.05 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1995 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Daybook of Raoul Gustav Wallenberg, June 12, 1944-December 29, 1944: & Wallenberg's prisoner-of-war card 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Never postpone until tomorrow what you can postpone until the day after.”
― Raoul Wallenberg, Letters and Dispatches 1924-1944

tags: humor, procrastination

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“I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.”
― Raoul Wallenberg

tags: reality, truth

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“I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible”
― Raoul Wallenberg

tags: courage, humanitarianism, the-holocaust, world-war-ii

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