raoul wallenberg

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born Aug. 4, 1912, Stockholm, Swed. died July 17, 1947?, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R Swedish businessman and humanitarian. The scion of a family of bankers, industrialists, and diplomats, in 1936 he became the foreign representative of a Hungarian trading company whose president was Jewish. When the Nazis sent troops to round up Jews in Hungary (1944), Wallenberg asked to be sent to Budapest as a diplomat. There he rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews by sheltering them in "protected houses" under the Swedish flag or securing their passage out of Hungary through bribes or counterfeit documents. Soon after Soviet troops occupied Budapest (1945), he was arrested on suspicion of espionage. He was sent to Moscow, where he allegedly died of a heart attack in prison in 1947. Unconfirmed reports from freed Soviet prisoners reported him alive in 1951, 1959, and 1975

{i} (1912-1947?) Swedish diplomat and businessman who saved approximately 100, 000 Hungarian Jews from Nazi extermination during World War II

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Ra·oul wallenberg

Türkische aussprache

räul wôlınbırg

Aussprache

/räˈo͞ol ˈwôlənbərg/ /rɑːˈuːl ˈwɔːlənbɜrɡ/