Lunatic Fringe (song)
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"Lunatic Fringe" is a song by Tom Cochrane released as a single by Canadian rock band Red Rider from their 1981 album, As Far as Siam.
Lunatic Fringe single
Raoul Wallenberg
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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 d
Lunatic Fringe (song)
…Tom Cochrane wrote the song after becoming concerned about a resurgence of anti-Semitism in the 1970s, and was also inspired after reading a book about Raoul Wallenberg, who rescued Jews from The Holocaust during World War II. Some sources have incorrectly cited the murder of John Lennon as the song's primary inspiration…
Passport photo from June 1944
Former location of the summer villa where Wallenberg was born in 1912 (pictured in 2009)
Wallenberg as a youth
Bronze statue of Raoul Wallenberg in Tel Aviv