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
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
A person of exceptional merit who is not a United States citizen may be declared an honorary citizen of the United States by an Act of Congress or by a proclamation issued by the U.S. president, pursu
Raoul Wallenberg
…the decades following his presumed death. In 1981, US Congressman Tom Lantos, one of those saved by Wallenberg, sponsored a bill making Wallenberg an honorary citizen of the United States, the second person ever to receive this honour, after Sir Winston Churchill. Wallenberg also became an honorary citizen of Canada, Hungary, Australia…
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