Talk:Raoul Wallenberg

Sightings

http://www.statedepartmentwatch.org/GulagWrangell.htm states that he was seen on disputed island of Wrangel(l) (splelling: disputed)

Sightings

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• Prisoners released from the Gulag claimed to have seen a foreign inmate answering to Wallenberg's description as late as 1990. A number of testimonies have placed him in Siberian or Russian prisons as late as 1981.
• Josyp Terelya, a Ukrainian activist who was imprisoned by the Soviets for refusing to abandon his nationalism and Catholic faith, wrote in his autobiography that he believes he was jailed with Wallenberg. He drew pictures and devoted a significant portion of his autobiography to this man and the influence he had on him.

External links

• The Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States
• International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation
• The Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States biography
• Wallenberg case chronology
• University of Michigan biography
• Raoul Wallenberg bibliography
• Profile of a Leader: The Wallenberg Effect
• Holocaust Memorial Budapest, testimony from the family Jakobovics in 1947
• Report of Swedish Russian Working Group
• Wallenberg: More Twists to the Tale, Mária Ember, They Wanted to Blame Us
• Interview with István Domonkos, son of Miksa Domonkos who died after the show trial preparations (Hungarian)

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Memorials

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• There are a number of sites honoring Wallenberg in Budapest, among them Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Park, which commemorates those who saved many of the city's Jews from deportation to extermination camps, and the building that housed the Swedish Embassy in 1945.
• Raoul Wallenberginstitutet, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, was established in 1984 at Lund University in Sweden. RWI aims to be a leading institution for research, education, and training regarding all aspects of international human rights law.
• In 2001, a memorial was created in Stockholm to honour Wallenberg. Unveiled by King Carl XVI Gustaf, at a ceremony attended by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and his wife, Wallenberg's niece, is an abstract memorial depicting people rising from the concrete, accompanied by a bronze replica of Wallenberg's signature which saved so many lives. It garnered a lot of criticism in Sweden because many saw it as ugly and unworthy of such a great hero; however, Wallenberg's sister Nina Lagergren approved of it. At the unveiling, King Carl XVI Gustaf said Wallenberg is "a great example to those of us who want to live as fellow humans." Kofi Annan praised him as "an inspiration for all of us to act when we can and to have the courage to help those who are suffering and in need of help."
• Several schools in Sweden have been named after Wallenberg, and there are several streets named Wallenbergsgatan or Raoul Wallenbergsgatan.
• There is a memorial stone and tree dedicated to Wallenberg in Cathays Park, Cardiff. The stone is inscribed "This tree is planted for Raoul Wallenberg, who saved 100,000 lives - A token to his great humanity."
• In the U.S.: a park in San Jose, California; Raoul Wallenberg Alternative High School in San Francisco, California; and a grammar school (P.S. 194) in Brooklyn; an outdoor theatre located in Overton Park in Memphis, Tennessee.
• Raoul Wallenberg Monument on Raoul Wallenberg Walk in Manhattan, across from the headquarters of the United Nations.
• Streets named after him in the Israeli cities of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa, in Earl Bales Park in Côte Saint-Luc (a suburb of Montreal, Quebec, Canada), Stamford, Connecticut, Missouri City, Texas, Chicago, Illinois, and Trenton, New Jersey.
• Raoul Wallenberg Park is located in Nepean, Ontario, Canada.
• He is memorialized in the Capitol Rotunda, Washington, District of Columbia.
• The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, District of Columbia is on a street named Raoul Wallenberg Place in his honor.

References

See also

• Wallenberg family
• Harald Edelstam, Raoul Wallenberg of the 1970s"
• Thomas Veres, Wallenberg photographer
• Marvin Makinen, Wallenberg researcher
• Sister Sara Salkahazi, aided Jews, and was killed by the Arrow Cross Party
• Carl Lutz, Swiss diplomat who issued protective passports in Budapest
• Giorgio Perlasca, Italian businessman who posed as a Spanish diplomat and issued forged Spanish visas.
• Arrow Cross Party, Fascist Hungarian organization
• Henryk Slawik, Polish diplomat in Budapest
• Shoes on the Danube Promenade
• Lars Ernster, rescued by Wallenberg
• The Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States

Legacy

Honors

Memorial at Great Cumberland Place, London

• The United States Postal Service issued a stamp to honor him in 1997. Representative Tom Lantos said: "It is most appropriate that we honor [him] with a U.S. stamp. In this age devoid of heroes, Wallenberg is the archetype of a hero -- one who risked his life day in and day out, to save the lives of tens of thousands of people he did not know whose religion he did not share."
• The Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States bestows the Raoul Wallenberg Award "on individuals, organizations and communities that reflect Raoul Wallenberg's humanitarian spirit, personal courage and nonviolent action in the face of enormous odds."
• He was made an Honorary Citizen of the United States in 1981. He was later made an honorary citizen of Canada in 1985, of Israel in 1986, and of the city of Budapest in 2003.
• In 1966, Wallenberg was honored at Israel's Yad Vashem memorial as one of the Righteous Among the Nations, recognizing those non-Jews who helped save Jews from the Holocaust.
• The Wallenberg Endowment at the University of Michigan awards the Wallenberg Medal and Lecture to outstanding humanitarians. The university's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning also awards Wallenberg Scholarships to exceptional undergraduate and graduate students, many of which are given to enable students to broaden their study of architecture to include work in distant locations.
• January 17 is Raoul Wallenberg Day in Canada, it represents the day he disappeared.

Memorials

• In 2001, a memorial was created in Stockholm to honour Wallenberg. Unveiled by King Carl XVI Gustaf, at a ceremony attended by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and his wife, Wallenberg's niece, is an abstract memorial depicting people rising from the concrete, accompanied by a bronze replica of Wallenberg's signature which saved so many lives. It garnered a lot of criticism in Sweden because many saw it as ugly and unworthy of such a great hero; however, Wallenberg's sister Nina Lagergren approved of it. At the unveiling, King Carl XVI Gustaf said Wallenberg is "a great example to those of us who want to live as fellow humans." Kofi Annan praised him as "an inspiration for all of us to act when we can and to have the courage to help those who are suffering and in need of help."
• There are a number of sites honoring Wallenberg in Budapest, among them Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Park, which commemorates those who saved many of the city's Jews from deportation to extermination camps, and the building that housed the Swedish Embassy in 1945.
• Raoul Wallenberg Monument is located on Raoul Wallenberg Walk in Manhattan, across from the headquarters of the United Nations. It was commissioned by the Swedish consulate and was designed by Swedish sculptor Gustav Graitz. Kraitz’s piece, is called Hope, and it is a replica of Wallenberg’s briefcase, a sphere, five pillars of black granite, and paving stones which once used on the streets of the Jewish ghetto in Budapest.

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