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Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg is a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat and philanthropist. He saved thousands of Jews from Germany occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from Nazi Germany and Hungarian fascists in the later period of World War II. While serving as Sweden's special envoy to Budapest from July to December 1944, Wallenberg issued protective passports and allowed Jews to stay in designated Swedish territorial buildings. On 17 January 1945, during the siege of Budapest by the Red Army, Wallenberg was captured by SMERSH on suspicion of espionage, and subsequently disappeared. He was then presumed dead on July 17, 1947 while being held in Lubyanka, a prison at the KGB secret police headquarters in Moscow. The motives for Wallenberg's arrest and imprisonment by the Soviet government, as well as questions surrounding his death circumstances and his relationship with US intelligence, remain mysterious and subject to continuing. speculate.
BornRaoul Gustaf Wallenberg, August 4, 1912, Lidingö Municipality, Sweden
Disappeared17 January 1945, Budapest, Hungary
DiedProbably 1947 (aged 34), Moscow, Soviet Union
MonumentsList
NationalitySwedish
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
OccupationBusinessman and diplomat
Known forRescuing Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust
Parent(s)Raoul Oscar Wallenberg, Maria Sofia "Maj" Wising
RelativesGuy von Dardel (maternal half-brother), Nina Lagergren (maternal half-sister), Fredrik Elias August von Dardel (step-father), Nils Dardel (step-uncle)
FamilyVon Dardel (stepfamily), Wallenberg family (biological father)

About Raoul Wallenberg

Politician Raoul Wallenberg was born on August 4, 1912 in Sweden (He dies at the age of 34, on July 17, 1947).

During WWII, a Swedish diplomat helped save 100,000 Hungarian Jews by granting protection passports and lodging many of them in Swedish areas. Over sixty years after he was assassinated while imprisoned by communist authorities and KGB secret police in Moscow, he was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal by the United States Congress.

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Raoul Wallenberg before becoming famous

Raoul Wallenberg was born in the Zodiac sign Leo (The Lion), and 1912 is also the year of Rat (鼠) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He went to the United States to study architecture and hitchhiked his way around the country.

Achievement of Raoul Wallenberg

One of the people spared by his passports was California Congressman Tom Lantos.

Raoul Wallenberg's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

Guy von Dardel, a physicist and the creator of CERN, was his half-brother.

Raoul Wallenberg Collabed with

During WWII, he protected individuals from Criminal Adolf Hitler's Nazi tyranny.

Raoul Wallenberg Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Raoul Wallenberg updated on March 16 2023.