Raoul Wallenberg

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Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg, born in 1912 and died in 1945, a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian.

During the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Hungary during the Second World War II, he was remembered for saving tens of thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary.

Wallenberg issued protective passports and sheltered Jews in buildings designated as Swedish territory during the Siege of Budapest by the Red Army in 1945, and then disappeared.

He died in 1947 while being detained by KGB undercover police in the Lubyanka, the KGB's headquarters and a Moscow affiliate jail.

Wallenberg's motives, as well as concerns regarding his detention and detention in the years after his presumed death, are still unclear, and are the subject of a lot of speculation.

In 1981, US Congressman Tom Lantos, one of those saved by Wallenberg, sponsored a bill designating Wallenberg as an honorary citizen of the United States, the second individual to be honoured with this distinction.

Wallenberg is also an honorary citizen of Canada, Hungary, Australia, and Israel.

Israel has named Wallenberg as one of the People's Most Valuable Among the Nations.

Several monuments have been dedicated to him, and streets have been named after him around the world.

In 1981, the Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States was established to "perform the humanitarian ideals and Raoul Wallenberg's nonviolent courage." The Raoul Wallenberg Award is given every year to honor individuals who achieve those objectives.

"In recognition of his contributions and brave acts during the Holocaust, the United States Congress gave him a Congressional Gold Medal."

Early life

Wallenberg was born in 1912 in Lidingö Municipality, near Stockholm, where his maternal grandparents, Per Johan Winning and his wife Sophie Wising (née Benedicks), had built a summer house in 1882. Gustaf Wallenberg, his paternal grandfather, was a diplomat and envoy to Tokyo, Istanbul, and Sofia.

Raoul Oscar Wallenberg (1888–1912), a Swedish naval officer, and Maria "Maj" Sofia Wising (1891–1979) were his parents, who married in 1911. His father died of cancer three months before he was born, and his maternal grandfather died of pneumonia three months after his birth. His father and grandmother, who are now widows, raised him together. Fredric von Dardel's mother married Fredric von Dardel in 1918; the couple had a son, Guy von Dardel, and a daughter, Nina Lagergren.

Wallenberg's paternal grandfather sent him to Paris after high school and his compulsory eight months in the Swedish military. He spent one year at the University of Michigan in the United States, and then, in 1931, he studied architecture at the University of Michigan in the United States. Despite the Wallenberg family was wealthy, he worked odd jobs in his spare time and joined other young male students as a passenger rickshaw guide in Chicago's Centuries of Progress. His vacations took him to the United States, with hitchhiking being his most popular method of travel. "If you travel like a hobo, everything's different," he wrote to his grandfather. You must be on alert the whole time. Every day, you're in close proximity with new people. "Hitchhiking" gives you diplomacy and tact training.

In 1935, he graduated from the University of Michigan. On his return to Sweden, he discovered that his American diploma did not qualify him to work as an architect. In the office of a Swedish firm that sold building products, his grandfather arranged a job for him later this year. He started a new job at a Holland Bank branch office in Haifa after six months in South Africa. Jacob Wallenberg, his father's uncle and godfather, returned to Sweden in 1936, with the help of his father's cousin and godfather, the Central European Trading Company, an export-import firm based in Stockholm and central Europe, owned by Kálmán Lauer, a Hungarian Jew.

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