The Rescue of Jews during WW2 and Tragic Disappearance | Raoul Wallenberg

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The year is 1944. The second World War is in full swing and around the territories occupied by Nazi Germany, Jews and others considered undesirables by the Nazi regime are rounded up and sent to concentration camps, awaiting certain death. Raoul Gustav Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat, voluntarily travelled to Hungary in order to save Hungarian Jews from the Nazis. He saved the lives of thousands of Jews while in Hungary, providing them with temporary Swedish passports and preventing the massacre of the largest Jewish ghetto in Budapest. As the war was coming to an end and the Russians entered Budapest, he was arrested. He disappeared shortly thereafter and it is nearly certain he died in a Soviet prison, though there never has been a definitive conclusion regarding his case. So, who was this man, a hero that dared take a stand in the face of one of the biggest evils mankind has ever seen, only to disappear thereafter?

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Time Codes:

1:12 Ancestry and Life Before WW2
2:50 Hungary During WW2
5:14 Wallenberg to Budapest
8:14 Disappearance
10:31 Investigations
13:07 Death Declaration
13:46 Awards

Sources:

Kovacs, Eszter. "Raoul Wallenberg: The Vanished Hero of Budapest." In 2015 Phi Alpha Theta Tennessee Regional Conference. 2015.

Jewish Virtual Library: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...
Raoul Wallenberg Institute: https://rwi.lu.se/about/about-raoul-w...