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Sep 23, 2019 · Raoul Wallenberg was 31 when, in July 1944, he volunteered to travel as a diplomat to Hungary as part of a US-funded effort to protect the 200,000 Jews still living in Budapest. More than 400,000 ...
Jan 20, 2024 · Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat, was a beacon of light during the darkest days of the Holocaust, and his heroism warrants remembrance and reminder today. Indeed, this year’s Commemorative Day ...
Raoul Wallenberg-komitéen i USA uddeler Raoul Wallenberg-medaljen til "enkeltpersoner, organisationer og samfund, som afspejler Raoul Wallenbergs humanitære indstilling, personlige mod og ikke-voldelige handlinger stillet over for store odds."
The University of Michigan was the point of departure for Raoul Wallenberg’s adult life. He came to Ann Arbor in 1931, the scion of one of Sweden’s pre-eminent families that included Lutheran bishops, industrialists, bankers, diplomats, and philanthropists. Wallenberg lived in boarding houses on Haven, Hill and Madison.
In an architecture class at the University of Michigan, Wallenberg had received a grade of “excellent” for designing a low-cost housing project that could fit 4,500 people in sixteen city blocks. In Budapest he found a way “to place 35,000 people in buildings designed for fewer than 5,000.”. Wallenberg’s “safe houses” saved ...
Raoul Wallenberg (4.8.1912 – 17.7.1947) là doanh nhân, nhà ngoại giao và người theo chủ nghĩa nhân đạo người Thụy Điển.. Ông rất nổi tiếng về những nỗ lực thành công để cứu hàng ngàn người Do Thái ở Hungary thoát khỏi Holocaust, trong giai đoạn sau của Chiến tranh thế giới thứ hai.
May 18, 2018 · Wallenberg, Raoul. [AUGUST 4, 1912–JULY 17, 1947] Swedish diplomat. Raoul Wallenberg has entered history as a humanitarian activist who took considerable personal risks to save men, women, and children from impending genocide. In the summer and fall of 1944, and until his disappearance in January 1945, Wallenberg was affiliated with the ...
