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Raoul Wallenberg

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Name: Raoul Wallenberg
Birth Date: August 4, 1912
Death Date: c. 1947
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Place of Death: Moscow, Russia
Nationality: Swedish
Gender: Male
Occupations: diplomat

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Biography of Raoul Wallenberg
1,227 words, approx. 4 pages
Raoul Wallenberg (1912-ca. 1947) was one of the great heroes of World War II and one of the first victims of the Cold War. In 1944, as a Swedish diplomat in Budapest, he saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from certain death. Taken into custody...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Wallenberg, Raoul
373 words, approx. 1 pages
(born August 4, 1912, Stockholm, Sweden—died ? July 17, 1947, Moscow, U.S.S.R. [now Russia]) Swedish businessman and diplomat who became legendary through his efforts to rescue Hungarian Jews during World War II and through his disappearance...
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Wallenberg, Raoul
138 words, approx. 1 pages
(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...
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Raoul Wallenberg Information
5,148 words, approx. 17 pages
Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (August 4, 1912 – July 16, 1947?)[1][2][3] was a Swedish humanitarian sent to Budapest, Hungary under diplomatic cover to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. He was of the prominent Swedish Wallenberg family. He worked to save the...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
Remembering Raoul Wallenberg
01/16/2001: 456 words, approx. 2 pages
Paul A. Levine's article about Raoul Wallenberg ["The Myth Has Obscured the Reality of His Heroism," Outlook, Jan. 7] touched me closely, because I was born in 1928 in Budapest and lived there during Wallenberg's presence in 1944 and 1945. My father knew Wallenberg....
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The Independent - London
Russians admit murder of Raoul Wallenberg
12/23/2000: 564 words, approx. 2 pages
MORE THAN half a century after the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg disappeared in Soviet-occupied territory, Russia has officially admitted responsibility for his imprisonment and death. A two-page statement by Russia's prosecutor general yesterday confirmed what the world has suspected for 56 years -...
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AP News
Russia turns over Wallenberg documents
9/26/2007: 397 words, approx. 1 pages
The main successor agency to the KGB on Wednesday gave a top Russian rabbi copies of archival documents on Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat credited with saving thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps.Nikolai Patrushev, director of the Federal Security Service, handed photographs and...
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AP Features
KGB successor agency hands copies of archives on Wallenberg to Jewish leader
9/26/2007: 397 words, approx. 1 pages
The main successor agency to the KGB on Wednesday gave a top Russian rabbi copies of archival documents on Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat credited with saving thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps.Nikolai Patrushev, director of the Federal Security Service, handed photographs and...
 


 

Raoul Wallenberg

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