What did raoul wallenberg do
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Raoul Wallenberg and the Rescue of Jews in Budapest
Background
Raoul Wallenberg was born on August 4, 1912, in Stockholm, Sweden.
After studying in the United States in the 1930s and establishing himself in a business career in Sweden, Wallenberg was recruited by the US War Refugee Board (WRB) in June 1944 to travel to Hungary. Given status as a diplomat by the Swedish legation, Wallenberg's task was to do what he could to assist and save Hungarian Jews.
Wallenberg Arrives in Budapest
Assigned as first secretary to the Swedish legation in Hungary, Wallenberg arrived in Budapest on July 9, 1944. Despite a complete lack of experience in diplomacy and clandestine operations, he led one of the most extensive and successful rescue efforts during the Holocaust. His work with the WRB prevented the deportation of thousands of Hungarian Jews.
Hungary had been an ally of Germany, but German defeats and mounting Hungarian losses led Hungary to seek an armistice with the western Allies. To forestall these peace feelers, German forces occupied Hungary on March 19, 1944, and forced the H
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Raoul Wallenberg was born into two prominent Swedish families of early twentieth-century Stockholm. His father, also named Raoul Wallenberg, was a young naval officer when he married Maj Wising, the daughter of a celebrated neurologist, in late 1911. Their promising union turned into early tragedy. Cancer took over the young naval officer and he died three months before his son was born.
Raoul Wallenberg was born on August 4, 1912, in the Victorian comfort of his grandmother’s summer home in Kapptsa, near Stockholm. Raoul lived with his mother and grandmother during his early years.
The Wallenberg family was very distinguished both in Sweden and around the world. Raoul’s father was an officer in the Swedish navy and his paternal grandfather, Gustav, was the Ambassador to the Swedish embassy in Japan. Raoul’s uncles, Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg, were successful bankers and founded the Enskilda Bank in Sweden. Other Wallenbergs were diplomats and bishops of the Lutheran Church. His mother also came from a prestigious family. Her father, Per, was Sweden’s first professor of neurolo
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Raoul Wallenberg
Swedish diplomat and humanitarian (1912–1945)
Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg (4 August 1912 – disappeared 17 January 1945)[note 1][1] 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 during the later stages of World War II. While serving as Sweden's special envoy in Budapest between July and December 1944, Wallenberg issued protective passports and sheltered Jews in buildings which he declared as Swedish territory.[2]
On 17 January 1945, during the Siege of Budapest by the Red Army, agents of SMERSH detained Wallenberg on suspicion of espionage, and he subsequently disappeared.[3] In 1957, 12 years after his disappearance, he was reported by Soviet authorities to have died of a suspected myocardial infarction on 17 July 1947 while imprisoned in the Lubyanka, the prison at the headquarters of the NKVD secret police in Moscow. A document released in 2023 as part of The President John F. Kennedy A
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